Erin Siegal McIntyre

Erin Siegal McIntyre is a journalism professor, investigative journalist and author. Her award-winning book “Finding Fernanda” (Beacon Press 2012) was the basis for an hour-long CBS special investigation that won a 2015 News Emmy. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Latino USA, and various other media outlets. She has also worked as an on-camera investigative reporter and producer for Univision Documentales. In 2020, she joined the faculty of UNC Chapel Hill as a tenure-track professor.

Siegal McIntyre was previously a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, and was a 2012-2013 Soros Media Justice Fellow reporting on aggravated felony deportations. She has spoken at various conferences, including the Logan Symposium in Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley, and is a past board member and Diversity Committee co-chair for the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS). Siegal McIntyre holds a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she was a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

Sub-specialties: Immigration, the border, Mexico, organized crime, child trafficking, investigative reporting, open records, Freedom of Information Act requests, corruption in international adoption, drug smuggling, women’s issues, migration, press freedom, journalism in Latin America.