Mary Tabor Engel is a journalist whose career in print and radio has included work at The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, NPR, and The New York Times, where she was a member of the metropolitan reporting staff that won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

In addition to her work as an investigative journalist, her beats included New York’s Federal Courts, National Education, Book Publishing, and Brooklyn. She is currently working as regional national editor at The Monitor.

A native of Memphis, Mary graduated from Princeton University, where she sang with an a cappella group and the famous Triangle Show. She has lived and worked in Boston, Mexico, Guatemala, Washington, DC, New York City, London, and Montclair, NJ, before moving to Charlotte with her husband and four children in 2006.

Mary’s board service has included the Princeton University Board of Trustees, Hutchison School National Alumnae Board, Teach for America (Charlotte), WFAE (Charlotte’s NPR affiliate), Opera Carolina, The Daily Memphian, World View at UNC-Chapel Hill, and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Charlotte.

Mary also worked for many years as a part-time instructor at the Knight School for Journalism at Queens University of Charlotte and co-founded the community service group We Walk Together Charlotte.