Erin Siegal is a current Ethics and Justice Investigative Journalism Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, which is based at Brandeis University. She was a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where Finding Fernanda began as an Honors-winning Master’s project.
Siegal is a recipient of the 2010 IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) Freelance Fellowship Award, the 2010 Joan Cook Fellowship from Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS), a 2008-2009 McCormick Scholarship from the Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund, Inc., and was a 2010 finalist for a Postgraduate Fellowship from the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Finding Fernanda has received various journalistic awards. In April 2012, the Overseas Press Club recognized the title with a 2012 Robert Spiers Benjamin Award Citation for Best Reporting on Latin America. The Northern California Society of Professional Journalists also honored the book with a James Madison Freedom of Information Award. In May 2012, the book won a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards (IPPY Awards) for Best Book in the category of Current Affairs III.
Since 2005, Siegal has worked primarily as a photojournalist. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Time magazine, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines and newspapers, and her clients have included Reuters, Human Rights Campaign, the New York Times, the Urban Justice Center, RollingStone.com, the United Nations, and many more.
Siegal has appeared on various TV and radio shows, including CBS Radio News, NBC Connecticut, NPR affiliate KERA Houston, and the Washington Update Radio Show, among others.
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