[1] In 2017 she joined the faculty at Morgan State University, the largest HCBU in Maryland, where she serves as Digital Newsroom Director at the School of Global Journalism and Communication.

[1] Her father, a native of Kingston, New York, was descended from the community of historic Black families in Ulster County, dating back to the Revolutionary War.

After her freshman year, she spent the summer working as a paid intern for The Pittsburgh Courier, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers in the United States.

[8] Required to spend a summer in preparation, following her Miami junior year she lived in Los Angeles where she was enrolled in the demanding Advanced Peace Corps Trainee program based on the UCLA campus.

[1] After graduation from Miami University in April 1966, she was assigned to spend two years in Ethiopia, living and working in the town of Waliso, 114 km southwest of Addis Ababa.

[1] They married six weeks later — and in June 1969, moved to Lebanon, where Lewis, appointed The Washington Post’s Middle East correspondent, was to open the paper’s bureau in Beirut.

[21] As Communications Manager for The Sentencing Project — a research and advocacy group dedicated to working for “a fair and effective criminal justice system" — from 2011 to 2014, DeWitt once wrote: “I spent a lifetime writing who, what, where, when, why and how.

[26] She won a Best Feature award from the National Association of Black Journalists for writing and producing the 1999 Nightline episode "Found Voices: The Slave Narratives.