Erin Siegal McIntyre
Erin Siegal McIntyre is an American investigative journalist, photographer and academic whose work has exposed corruption, fraud and human rights abuses across Latin America and along the United States-Mexico border, and whose reporting has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Latino USA, among other outlets. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons School of Design. She has also served as a staff photographer at the United Nations, covering the 2006 and 2009 General Assemblies, and she was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism from 2009 through 2019. Her photographic work is represented by Redux Pictures and she has been a contract Reuters photojournalist since 2006.
Siegal McIntyre is the author of Finding Fernanda (Beacon Press, 2012), an investigative work exposing fraudulent, criminal, and corrupt practices in international adoption between Guatemala and the United States, which was honored by the Overseas Press Club of America with a Robert Spiers Benjamin Award citation for best reporting on Latin America, an SPJ James Madison Award, a Gold IPPY Award and an International Latino Book Award, and served as the basis for an hour-long CBS special investigation that won a 2015 News Emmy. Her forthcoming book Behind the Green Line examines the institutional culture of the U.S. Border Patrol from the 1970’s to the present day.
Her work has been supported by a wide array of grants and awards including from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the International Women’s Media Fund, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Harnisch Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation. She has worked in broadcast as a staff investigative reporter and producer for Univision’s Documentary unit and as a border reporter for the Fronteras Desk, a public radio collaboration of NPR affiliates along the southwest border.
She joined the journalism faculty at the University of North Carolina in 2020-21.
Education
- M.S., Columbia University
- B.F.A., Parsons School of Design