Honors Forum: Yvonne Latty - The Griot: First Person Storytelling

Yvonne Latty is the Director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation programs at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is the author of In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive (Polipoint Press 2006), and the critically acclaimed We Were There: Voices of African Americans Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins/Amistad 2004). She worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years, where she was an award winning reporter specializing in urban issues. Latty was featured in two History Channel’s documentaries, Honor Deferred and the Emmy award winner, A Distant Shore: African Americans at D-Day.

Latty is a Leeway Foundation Fellow and has lectured nationally. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, BET.com, The Washington Post, and numerous other media outlets. She has been featured in over 100 media outlets including, Newsweek, CNN, The New York Times, CNN International, Fox News, NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Detroit Free Press.

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