Sara Herschander
Future Perfect fellow
Sara Herschander is a fellow for Future Perfect, Vox’s section on making the world a better place. She loves to write stories about global health, philanthropy, labor, and social movements.
Sara was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Philanthropy and made podcasts for Futuro Media. Her freelance work has appeared in The American Prospect, Capital & Main, Fast Company, Documented NY, and others. In a prior life, she worked in global education, refugee services, and homeless services.
Sara earned her BA in international security and foreign policy at Boston University and her MA in bilingual journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
You can follow her on X at @SaraHerschander or drop her a line at sara.herschander@voxmedia.com.
Latest articles by Sara Herschander
It’s not about who wins. It’s about the dirty laundry you air along the way.
Is it okay to take money from bad people if it goes to a good cause?
Thanks to PrEP drugs, a country without HIV was in reach. That’s now at risk.
These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.
Why giving to charity is a better deal if you’re rich.
This could be the future of foreign aid. Or a total disaster.
The battle over what OpenAI owes the public.
Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.
The internet will do anything for baby animals — except the hard stuff.
How a small innovation lab resurrected itself.