She earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2007, and her BA in psychology and computer science from Smith College. Witt won the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science in 2015 and the Steve Yantis Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society in 2014. An athlete herself, having won a gold medal on Team USA at the World Games Ultimate Frisbee Championships in 2005, Witt studies spatial perception in athletes and in all people as they perform actions such as walking, running, jumping and throwing. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation. Author website.