Erin Einhorn

About

Erin Einhorn is an investigative reporter and editor based in downtown Detroit currently writing "DISMISSED: The Children We've Lost to School Punishment and the Urgent Need For Change," a book from The New Press coming out in 2027. Until recently, she covered education and other issues for NBC News. Erin was the founding editor of Chalkbeat Detroit, a non-profit education news organization covering schools in Detroit and Michigan. She also served as senior reporter and as Detroit Bureau Chief for Chalkbeat. Before moving to Detroit in 2014, she was the Deputy Managing Editor for politics at the New York Daily News where she previously served as City Hall Bureau Chief and as an education reporter covering the nation’s largest public school system. She covered government, politics, economic development and other issues for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News and has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, Fortune, NPR.com, PBS.com and the public radio program This American Life. Einhorn is the author of "The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home," which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. The book chronicles the year she spent living in Poland, getting to know the family that rescued her mother as a hidden child during World War II.