Lacresha Berry is a culturally-responsive educator, performance artist, and a multi-subject curriculum consultant. She specializes her training and teaching in providing culturally responsive pedagogy with arts based, hands-on activities within multi-subject disciplines to increase student engagement, strengthen classroom management, and foster fun and creativity in classrooms across the country. Lacresha is devoted and committed to creating compassionate leaders who celebrate their own legacies and has been designing educational experiences and safe spaces for teachers, parents, students, and school personnel. Her research interests include work in cultural responsive pedagogy, gender equity, social justice in education, diversity and inclusion, arts in education, and anti-racist education.

Her arts education lesson work and editing skills were recently published and featured in the new curriculum guide by Fresh Education, entitled, Fresh Ed: A Field Guide to Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. She’s also helped to design lesson prompts and edit original content through Fresh Education’s digital annotator, found on www.freshed.urbanarts.org. She’s also written a sample curriculum for the newly launched poetry book, “Can I Touch Your Hair?” by Charles Waters and Irene Latham.

She earned her Bachelor’s in Theater from the University of Kentucky (2003) and her Master’s (36 credits) in Costume Design for Stage and Film which she uses in every facet of her teaching and consulting work. Before Lacresha’s work as a consultant, she taught full-time as a certified multi-subject generalist for grades 5-9 for 10 years in Harlem. Since then, Ms. Berry continues to passionately work with students of all ages and backgrounds as a teaching artist through several organizations based in New York City. Lacresha currently performs and facilitates workshops across the country using culturally responsive content and autobiographical portraits of her life.