
Danielle Mackey is a journalist who lived mostly in El Salvador from 2008 through 2020. In 2021, she moved to New York City, from which she collaborates with investigative teams at Latin American outlets, publishes in U.S. media, and works part-time as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. She's currently pursuing long-term projects about security, policing and violence in El Salvador, and narco-related political and financial corruption in Honduras, and is a 2022 Jane Hoppen resident at Paragraph. She is originally from Iowa.