2018

Tuesday, February 20th

6:30pm

Reporting on Sexual Assault in the Workplace: A panel featuring the radio, broadcast and print investigative team that produced Rape on the Night Shift

Join the award-winning investigative team that produced Rape on the Night Shift for a candid discussion about covering sexual assault and harassment in the workplace before, and now during, the #metoo movement. The team will also talk about the behind the scenes work of reporting and gathering material for print, radio and broadcast film pieces–in two languages–simultaneously.

A collage of four portraits displaying diverse individuals linked to Berkeley Journalism. Top left: a woman with curly hair, smiling outdoors. Top right: a woman with straight hair, smiling in grayscale. Bottom left: a woman with short hair, smiling indoors. Bottom right: a man with short hair and beard, smiling on stairs.

Clockwise from Top-Left: Daffodil Altan, Bernice Yeung, Andres Cediel, Sasha Khokha

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Daffodil Altan is an Emmy-nominated journalist and documentary producer at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting program. Most recently, she produced the Frontline/Univision documentary, “Rape on the Night Shift,” a collaboration between the IRP, Reveal at The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED, which investigated the hidden reality of rape on the job for women janitors in the U.S.  The film won the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for best Broadcast/Video in 2016 and was nominated for two national Emmys. Previously she was a producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where her reporting on teen solitary confinement at Rikers Island earned her an Emmy nomination and was part of a wave of renewed coverage that led to the banning of solitary confinement for teens at the New York City jail. Her print, radio and production credits include: Frontline, Univision, MSNBC, Telemundo, KQED, the PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, the OC Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She has received awards for her work from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., the Society of Professional Journalists, The San Francisco International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Press Club and the Imagen Foundation. She has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Andrés Cediel is a documentary filmmaker and Professor of Visual Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He produced the films “Rape in the Fields” and “Rape on the Shift,” which investigated sexual assault of immigrant women in the agricultural and janitorial industries. The two films, which aired in both English and Spanish, were part of a multi-media collaboration with FRONTLINE, Univision, the Investigative Reporting Program, the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. They combined to win a duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the RFK Grand Prize for Journalism, and were nominated for four national Emmys. Cediel’s previous work with FRONTLINE included a series on death investigation with ProPublica, and a series on climate change for the international magazine show FRONTLINE World. Previously, he co-produced “The Judge and the General,” a dupont-Columbia Journalism winner and Emmy nominated film which chronicled human rights cases against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Cediel graduated from Brown University and received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sasha Khokha is the host of “The California Report Magazine,” which takes listeners on sound-rich radio excursions around the Golden State.  As The California Report’s Central Valley Bureau Chief for nearly a dozen years, Sasha brought the lives and concerns of rural Californians to listeners around the state. Sasha’s reporting helped exposed the hidden price immigrant women janitors and farmworkers may pay to keep their jobs: sexual assault at work — and helped change California law with regard to sexual harassment of farmworkers.  She’s won a national Murrow and a PRNDI award for investigative reporting, as well as multiple prizes from the Radio Television News Directors Association and the Society for Professional Journalists. She began her radio career in waterproof overalls, filing stories about the salmon fishery at Raven Radio in Sitka, AK. She has produced and reported for several documentary films. “Calcutta Calling,” about children adopted from India to Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, was nominated for an Emmy Award.  Sasha is  a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Brown University, and is the mother of two young children.

Bernice Yeung is an award-winning reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting whose work examines issues related to violence against women, labor and employment, immigration and environmental health. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and PBS Frontline. She served on the “Rape in the Fields” and “Rape on the Night Shift” reporting teams. These projects led to ​​her first book, “In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers” (The New Press 2018).

 

LOCATION

North Gate Hall Library

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CONTACT INFO

Julie Hirano
juliehirano@berkeley.edu