Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator based in London, U.K. She was born in Chicago to a Mexican mother and Iranian father and raised in Mexico City and Los Angeles.

In 2014 she collaborated on The Transborder Immigrant Tool Book published by the University of Michigan Press.

Her book, ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America From Around the Globe, is published by The New Press. In it she travels to countries and investigates ways they have created governments and cultures that support the wellbeing of their citizens and environments.

Her work appears regularly in The Nation, The L A Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, and elsewhere.

We spoke with Natasha Hakimi Zapata on June 24, 2025 via FaceTime while she was traveling in Europe.

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/climate/trump-end-protections-for-58-million-acres-of-national-forests.html

To Rebuild Post-Fire, Los Angeles Should Look to Singapore https://jacobin.com/2025/05/la-fires-singapore-public-housing

All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/20/all-babies-in-england-to-get-dna-test-to-assess-risk-of-diseases-within-10-years

Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/housing-crisis-in-europe-vienna-renters-social-housing