Lacresha Berry is a culturally responsive educator, performance artist + writer , 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 poetry will be featured in “Mistakes that Made Us” in the fall 2024 and she’s currently working on a debut young adult novel and new one woman show.