Lisa Yanick Litwiller, a former Center for Public Integrity director of audience whose humor, compassion, leadership and talent contributed to award-winning projects that focused on inequality, died of cancer Monday, March 18, surrounded by her family at home in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
She was 46.
Yanick Litwiller came to Public Integrity in 2021, building an audience team that was central to the organization’s mission to report stories that confront inequality. She built an innovative partnership model that paired Public Integrity journalists with reporters from newsrooms around the country, resulting in important, impactful stories on topics from student homelessness to climate relocation.
