Erin Siegal McIntyre

Erin Siegal McIntyre (“Professor Mack”) is an investigative journalist and photographer who relocated from Tijuana, Mexico, to join the journalism faculty at UNC in 2020. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Latino USA and various other media outlets. Professor Mack’s investigation Finding Fernanda (Beacon Press 2012) exposed networks of organized crime and corrupt practices in international adoption between Guatemala and the United States. The book was honored by the Overseas Press Club of America with a Robert Spiers Benjamin Award citation for best reporting in any medium on Latin America and other fancy-sounding awards. Finding Fernanda was the basis for an hour-long CBS special investigation that won an Emmy in 2015.

From 2009 through 2019, Professor Mack was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. She’s also been a staff investigative reporter/producer for Univision’s Documentary unit and a border reporter in Tijuana/San Diego for the Fronteras Desk, a public radio collaboration of NPR affiliates along the southwest border. Professor Mack began her career as a photojournalist in NYC, stringing for Reuters and working at the United Nations as a staff photographer covering the General Assembly. She’s also previously worked in a variety of restaurants, bars and nightclubs as a waitress, bartender and dancer.

Education

• M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
• B.F.A, Parsons School of Design