
Ph.D. Communication, Ohio State University
M.S. Mass communication, Miami University
B.A. Journalism and mass communication, NYU.
Dr. Litty has ten years' experience in public radio and television in New York, New Jersey, and Ohio. She taught ten years in higher education and the non-profit sector before coming to UNCP in Fall of 2001. Here she teaches courses in video production, broadcast writing, and mass communication theory, law, and ethics.
Dr. Litty is currently a member of the community advisory board for Many Voices, One Message: Stop Tobacco Addiction, an initiative of the NC Commission of Indian Affairs, the UNC Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, and the WVU Prevention Research Center. She chairs the city-county Community Access Channel Advisory Committee for Laurinburg-Scotland County.
Dr. Litty is a faculty member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and belongs to the National Association for Native American Studies. Her research interests include health communication and the phenomenology of journalism.