Jennifer Berry Hawes is a reporter. Currently, she is an investigative reporter covering the Southern United States for Pro Publica and a special projects writer at The Post and Courier.Hawes worked on a team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for "Till Death Do Us Part," a series about South Carolina's epidemic of domestic violence.Hawes covered the 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church and wrote her first book about it, called "Grace Will Lead Us Home," which was published in 2019.Hawes received her B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from Roosevelt University, where she was also Editor of The Torch, the university's student newspaper.