Yvette Cabrera is a 2025-2026 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Her work illuminating the long-term impacts of systemic environmental practices was honored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute with a 2024 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. She has reported extensively on the pervasiveness of toxic lead contamination, including the series Ghosts of Polluters Past, an investigation on the legacy of lead pollution in urban residential neighborhoods. She presented a 2024 Ted Talk on solutions to this problem and also created a journalist’s guide for reporting on soil lead contamination through a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency. Her reporting won a 2023 international Sigma Award for Data Journalism, and a 2023 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She’s worked at Grist, HuffPost, and most recently at the Center for Public Integrity, where her work on the devastating effects of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation won a Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award from Columbia University and a national Edward R. Murrow Award. She is immediate past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and is a founding member of The Uproot Project, a network for environmental journalists of color.