Prize-winning, veteran journalist Katti has covered hard news and soft: Presidential hopefuls; statehouse lawmakers; hometown heroes; time-honored and pop celebrities; floundering schools in Appalachia; New Feminism’s younger adherents; juveniles on death row; the fight for running water on an outlying Mississippi road, a one-of-a-kind university think thank run by formerly incarcerated persons with Ph.Ds.

Ms., Vibe, The Crisis, Odyssey Couleur, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, and Toronto Star are among those that have published her work. For 2010’s relaunched Jet, she writes a twice-monthly column. On Essence magazine’s masthead, she is listed as a contributing writer. She files regularly for news organizations including DailyYonder.com, SHRM.org, TheRoot.com, Diverse Issues in Higher Education and Newsday in New York, where she previously spent 16 years full time, ultimately as a senior writer on assorted aspects of society, culture and lifestyle, from a post-Hurricane Katrina meditation on home and place to musings about the convergence of religious certainty and spiritual doubt. Her articles have run for The Daily Yonder and Diverse. Here & Now, a daily broadcast on National Public Radio, has run her photos on their site.