Mary Tabor Engel

Biography

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

In addition to serving as an investigative journalist, Tabor’s beats included New York’s Federal Courts, National Education Correspondent, Book Publishing Correspondent, and General Correspondent for Brooklyn. A native of Memphis, TN, Mary graduated from Princeton University and lived and worked in Boston, Washington, DC, New York City, London, and Montclair, NJ, before moving to Charlotte with her husband and four children in 2006.

Her board service has included WFAE (Charlotte’s NPR affiliate radio station), the Princeton University Board of Trustees, Hutchison School National Alumnae Board, Teach for America (Charlotte), Opera Carolina, The Daily Memphian, World View at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Musical and Dramatic Arts Foundation, and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Charlotte. Mary is a part-time journalism instructor at Queens University of Charlotte’s Knight School of Communication.