A Brief Bio on Kitty Oliver

Biography

Dr. Kitty Oliver is a veteran South Florida journalist, and professor of creative nonfiction and oral history at the university level who has a Ph.D. focusing on race and ethnic communication. She has been featured on CNN news, "Black in America," for her race relations work. She is also president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc., a cultural diversity consulting firm.

A native Floridian, she specializes in books, television documentaries, and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues in innovative ways. Since the 1980s she has produced landmark work as a cultural diversity researcher, documenting the state’s mushrooming diversity that has become a mirror of American society.

Her major public television and video productions, which have aired widely and are also used in schools and libraries, include the PBS documentary series “Celebrate…the Cultural Connection” and a new 10-part series, “Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives” which premiered in Florida in Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV.

She is a lecturer and workshop leader on creative nonfiction writing techniques and memoir writing, and a professional jazz singer. She conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association.