Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us. -
Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that consumers pay. The average cost of living in July was up 2.7%. -
Just published this week: A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller. -
Rates of the world's deadliest cancer appear to be low in sub-Saharan Africa. But that statistic is masking the scope of the disease, doctors say. -
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that govern their policing, even as Trump vows to crack down on crime. -
Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now, Presidents Trump and Putin will meet Friday in Alaska to discuss another war involving Crimea.
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