Margaret Engel directs the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and was the managing editor of the Newseum. She was a reporter for the Washington Post, Des Moines Register and Lorain Journal, and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard.
She and her twin wrote the play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, which has had about 50 productions to date around the country.
In 2017, the two authors wrote a book with Reise Moore, ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper’s Guide to Smart Fashion, that included input from several costume designers. Earlier, she and her husband, Bruce Adams, wrote three editions of a Fodor’s travel guide to America’s baseball parks.
She has served on the board of Theatre Washington/Helen Hayes Awards, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and chairs the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards board. She is a member of the Nieman Foundation board.
