Maya Dukmasova is a senior reporter at InjusticeWatch.org
Prior to that she was a staff writer at the Chicago Reader and a freelance writer, translator, and photographer. Her articles and translations have appeared in Harper’s, Jacobin, Slate, Broadly, Truthout, In These Times, and The Chicago Reporter. In 2021 an anthology of her reporting on housing issues, A Home in Chicago, was published by the Reader. She has made frequent media appearances to discuss judicial accountability, housing issues, and government transparency.
Maya has won numerous local and national journalism awards including:
September 2025 Sidney Award for “Fake science, faulty methods, misleading testimony,” an investigation into a rogue forensic lab at the University of Illinois Chicago whose work led to wrongful convictions for DUI-cannabis.
2024 IRE Award (Division IV) for “The Tenant Trap,” a five-part series on the unfair system set up to put landlords property rights above the rights of tenants to safe housing in Chicago.
2023 Driehaus Awards for Investigative Reporting for “Surveilling Sobriety,” an investigative series on the use of alcohol monitoring devices in Cook County courts
2022 Studs Terkel Award, granted to Chicago-area journalists whose work elevates people’s voices above power
2021 Illinois Humanities’ Envisioning Justice Commissioned Humanist to produce a long-form feature and educational curriculum about wrongful conviction
2020 Logan Nonfiction Program residency recipient to advance a long-form feature project on a wrongful conviction
Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards
2020: First place and third place winner for feature writing
2019: First place and third place winner for feature writing
Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Awards
2022: Best feature, all media
2018: Best feature, non-daily newspaper or magazine
2017: Best in-depth reporting in a general interest publication
Get in touch:
maya[dot]dukmasova[at]gmail[dot]com
Maya Dukmasova 