Erin Siegal is an Ethics and Justice Investigative Journalism Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. 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.

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. For interview and media requests, please contact publicist Liza Lucas, Senior Publicist at Goldberg McDuffie Communications, llucas@goldbergmcduffie.com, 212-705-4211.

To reach the author directly, please email erinsiegal (at) gmail.com.