Bernice Yeung was a California-based reporter for ProPublica. In 2020, she was a member of a team of journalists who covered the impact of COVID-19 on meatpacking workers, which was honored with a Polk Award, a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Award, and a National Institute for Health Care Management Award.
Previously, she was a reporter with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she was a member of the national Emmy-nominated ***** in the Fields reporting team, which investigated the *****ual assault of immigrant farmworkers. The project won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Yeung also was the lead reporter for the national Emmy-nominated ***** on the Night Shift team, which examined *****ual violence against female janitors. That work won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative journalism, and the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Those projects led to her first book, In a Day's Work: The Fight to End *****ual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press, 2018), which was honored with the PEN America/John Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.