Speakers

Susan Ferriss

Senior Editor, Pulitzer Center

Susan Ferriss is a veteran journalist and senior editor at the Pulitzer Center, where she supports reporters and media outlets worldwide on health stories and other enterprise work.

Her own prize-winning investigations have revealed wage theft affecting U.S. immigrants and foreign guest workers, as well as Covid-19 deaths among immigrants and guest workers involved in U.S. food production. Susan’s stories exposing abusive policing of students in U.S. schools inspired laws limiting how officers can interact with children. As a foreign correspondent, her stories on inequality unaddressed by Mexican economic reforms won an Overseas Press Club award for Latin American reporting. A documentary Susan produced, The Golden Cage, is about farmworkers in California. She also co-wrote a book,

The Fight in the Fields, about U.S. farmworker leader Cesar Chavez.