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Judi Moore Latta, Ph.D.
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Dr. Judi M Latta
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Affiliation: Professor Emerita, Howard University
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Phone Number: 240-672-2326
Email: [email protected]
Session Name: Poetry (Gladys Gary Vaughn)
Bio:
Judi Moore Latta, Ph.D. is professor emerita — Howard University, the Department of Media, Journalism and Film (Cathy Hughes School of Communications). While at Howard on the faculty and in the administration, she served as executive director of Communications and Marketing for the University in the president’s cabinet; as the first director of WHUR-WORLD, 96.3, HD-2; and as the first woman in the role of interim general manager of the public broadcast station WHUT-TV.
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, she is a storyteller who considers herself one of the GRITS (Girls Raised in the South). With more than three decades of experience in commercial and public broadcasting, she worked as reporter/producer at the CBS affiliate WUSA-TV and at National Public Radio (NPR) where she became the network’s first education reporter, as well as executive producer of Special Programs and creator of “NPR’s Latin File” (first radio network Hispanic daily news program). At NPR she earned the George Foster Peabody Award as senior producer of the 26-part documentary series, “Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions”; (National Public Radio and the Smithsonian Institution,1994.) Producing dozens of other documentaries, she earned awards recognition from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, American Women in Radio and Television, National Education Association, National Association of Black Journalists and National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
She has published two books: God Ain’t Sleep: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2015) and Beyond Roses – An Obligation to Speak (Finding Voice for Conversations) (2018). Two other manuscripts are in progress.
She continues to focus on underserved communities with her work in partnership with private and public organizations including the Links Incorporated (Silver Spring Chapter), the Olive Branch Community Church of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and the National Council of Negro Women (Potomac Valley Section). Working with the latter, she is a founding member of the Council of Elders for a Girls Rites of Passage program that has mentored nearly 300 youth (ages 13 through 17.)
She graduated summa cum laude from Hampton Institute (B.S.), with honors from Boston University (M.A.) and with highest honors from the University of Maryland College Park (Ph.D.). She is married to Joseph Latta, D.D.S., has two daughters, one son in love, and four grandchildren.
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