Washington, D.C.

An independent journalist, author, and new media producer, Leah Y. Latimer is editor of the Voices of Civil Rights project. She was a Washington Post staff writer for 12 years before becoming senior editor of Emerge magazine. There she helped oversee a special edition on the disenfranchisement of African American men, a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Best Single Issue. Under One Roof, a series on families that she produced and wrote for BET.com, won the 2001 Best Online News Project award from the National Association of Black Journalists. In 2004, she won First Place for Magazine Writing in NABJ's Salute to Excellence Awards. The author of Higher Ground: Preparing African American Children for College (Genesis Press), Leah is a graduate of Syracuse University and has held journalism fellowships in child and family public policy. She has deep roots in the rural South, where her family's educational achievements during the emerging civil rights era became the subject of the CBS radio play Sixteen Sticks in a Bundle.

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