Hello!
My name is Michaela. I am an interpreter at heart. I am quirky and quick to empathize. I love storytelling because it has the power to help us relate to each other.
I’m a Bulgarian-Turkish filmmaker and freelance photojournalist based in San Francisco, California and Sofia, Bulgaria.
I graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May 2022. During my time there, I was a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting fellow and participated in Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV. I worked for the Investigative Reporting Program, and have published work in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Magazine, and Bloomberg, to name a few.
I’m a mom to a cool and curious, interracial toddler. Raising him with a sense of belonging keeps me up at night. My reporting interests revolve around areas I have a personal connection to: parenthood, migration, state sanctioned assimilation, the environment.
I’d love to hear from you!
Call: 608.515.9966
Email: michaela.vatcheva@gmail.com
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