Dr. La TaSha Levy

Team Member Dr. La TaSha Levy is a Black Studies scholar with more than 20 years of experience teaching Black history and culture to high school and college students. In 2018, she founded Black Star Rising, a Black history curricula and coaching enterprise that prepares educators, parents, and community members to teach African American history and culture despite limited opportunities for formal training in Black Studies.

In 2015, Dr. Levy taught one of the first college courses on #BlackLivesMatter and has since expanded resources for educators to understand and teach recent movements in historical context. She is a contributing author of the award-winning text, Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, and her chapter, "Black Conservative Dissent," was published in The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century. 

Dr. Levy earned a bachelor's degree in African American and African Studies from the University of Virginia, a master's in Africana Studies at Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Northwestern University. She also has experience working in student affairs, having served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia.