Maggy Donaldson

Maggy Donaldson is a New York-based journalist. She has published recent work with Harper's, The Associated Press, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde Diplomatique, GlobalPost, Guernica, and The Atlantic, among others. She also produces Morning Edition part-time at New York Public Radio.

Bring us your tired, your poor, but not your job applications

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Asylum seekers often flee war and torture, and hope to get started making a decent living when they make it to freedom. US says: Not so fast.

One side effect of Colombia’s civil war: cheap household help. But domestic workers want a better life.

February 11, 2016Economics

Moroccan women wait at a border crossing with loads of 100-200 pounds of commercial goods on their backs.

Along Morocco’s border with a Spanish enclave, these women shoulder twice their weight ‘to earn a morsel of bread’

May 13, 2015Economics