Advisory Board Member

Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning independent investigative journalist and former editor at the Center for Public Integrity where she led an award-winning team investigating inequality. She previously worked as an independent investigative journalist based in South Florida and investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. She was a 2018 National Fellow and a recipient of a Dennis A. Hunt grant for health journalism which allowed her to do reporting in her native Puerto Rico on the health care crisis facing the island long before the devastating Hurricane Maria. In 2010, Torres co-founded Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Her consumer stories at the Florida Sun-Sentinel won state, regional and national awards and led to the arrest of a bad contractor. Torres has earned over two dozen awards throughout her career, including an Emmy for her work at NBC, national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Gracie award, Columbia-duPont award and several awards from organizations such as the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Education Writers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. She was inducted in NAHJ’s Hall of Fame in 2018. She’s currently serving on the board of directors of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. Torres was a recipient of the Gwen Ifill Award  in 2022.