Yvonne Latty
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| Born | Harlem, New York, United States |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation | Journalist and Professor |
| Website | www.yvonnelatty.com |
Yvonne Latty is an American journalist, author filmmaker and professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has traveled the country to speak on subjects including race to writing, and is also a Leeway Foundation Fellow.
Latty is the director of the Reporting The Nation/Reporting New York in Multimedia graduate program at NYU and is the author of two books: "We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans From World War II to the War in Iraq" (Harper Collins/Amistad, 2004) and "In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out On Duty, Loss and the Fight To Stay Alive" (Polipoint Press, 2006). "In Conflict" was later developed into an award-winning play. She is also the producer director of "Sacred Poison" [1] a documentary which tells the story of the legacy of uranium mining in Navajo Nation. It was awarded the David Horowitz Media Award at the 2011 Sante Fe Independent Film Festival.
Latty was born to Albert and Ramona Latty. She and her older sister, Margie, grew up in a tenement in New York City’s South Harlem neighborhood, which was then overrun by drugs and poverty. The daughter of a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, Latty spent a lot of time on her fire escape, watching stories unfold on the streets below. What she saw and heard sparked her initial interest in telling stories — especially those of the unheard urban poor.
She attended New York University and received a BFA in film–television. After spending a few years as a photographer, she decided to become a writer. Latty received a master’s degree in journalism at NYU, and then worked for 13 years as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. There, she was an award-winning journalist specializing in urban issues. Her work has also been featured in USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, NPR, Fox News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press, and the Miami Herald.
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