Yvonne Latty
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.
