Erin Siegal McIntyre is an Assistant Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA) and an investigative author, multimedia journalist, and photographer. Before becoming a professor in 2020, she was based in Tijuana, Mexico for a decade. Her award-winning book, Finding Fernanda, was released in 2011. Her second book is an investigative history of the U.S. Border Patrol.