Photo by Adriane Ohanesian.
Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin is a journalist focusing on migration.
His work seeks to explore our notions of home and what it means to leave it - what is left behind and what is formed anew - as well as the demographic, cultural, and geopolitical ripples these movements create.
He launched Waypoints in March 2026, a publication documenting the ways migration shapes our world, and the lives at the center of it.
His work has been exhibited at Foto Istanbul, FotoDC, as well as The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His stories have been published in print and online in The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, Die Zeit, and Al Jazeera Magazine among others.
Mackenzie studied migration at Dartmouth College in the United States, and graduated with a B.S. in Geography .
He speaks Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
He lives in Nairobi, Kenya with his wife and two kids.
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Mackenzie@MKCimage.com