About Bernice Yeung
As a freelance reporter, I enjoy covering stories about people, social issues, culture and the law. I developed a particular interest in legal affairs and after looking into a case against an Illinois death row inmate named Aaron Patterson. I’ve since written stories about lawsuits related to human trafficking, wrongful convictions, political asylum and a billion-dollar trademark infringement case involving Stolichnaya vodka.
But I also enjoy telling the unexpected human stories: The mother who lost her son on September 11th and who has since befriended the mother of an al Qaeda terrorist, the real estate agent who rescued the abandoned archive of famed jazz singer Maxine Sullivan, and the world-renown butoh dancers who quietly run a San Francisco sushi restaurant, to name a few.
Work Samples
The International Herald Tribune
In the spring of 2004, a 31-year-old real estate developer and investor from Harlem named Ed Poteat received a call from a broker about a hot deal in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.
Mother Jones
It wasn't Toto Constant's human rights violations that finally landed the Haitian paramilitary leader in prison. It was mortgage fraud in Long Island.
New York Times
EVERY weekday evening, Simon Rogers rides the uptown No. 1 train from his job in the garment district to his home on the Upper West Side. He usually sits near the door for a good view of people climbing aboard, but on this day Mr. Rogers was seated near the center of the car because the train was crowded. Almost automatically, he began evaluating his fellow passengers, and his eyes found an older man in a newsboy cap and glasses.
