Dr. LaTaSha Levy is an Associate Professor in Africana Studies at Howard University who specializes in Black intellectual traditions, African American politics, and racism and resistance in the United States. She earned degrees in African American Studies from the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, and her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. In 2015, TaSha served as the academic liaison for the Civil Rights South Seminar organized by civil rights veteran Julian Bond. That same year, she taught one of the first college courses on #BlackLivesMatter at UVA and has since expanded resources for educators to understand and teach recent movements in historical context.

TaSha co-designed a course on the Freedom Summer Project with Dr. Nicole Burrowes, which was offered at the University of Virginia and the Telluride Summer Program in Black Studies. She is a contributor to Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge; The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century, and Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in which she co-authored a chapter on teaching Freedom Summer. Prior to graduate study, TaSha was a humanities teacher at Maya Angelou Public Charter High School in D.C., co-founded by James Forman, Jr. She also served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia. TaSha is the founder and executive director of Black Star Rising, a Black Studies curricula and consulting enterprise focused on expanding access to Black Studies beyond the ivory tower.