biography

Carissa Johnson White is educator, artist, and facilitator. She has served schools and non-profits as an artist-in-residence, created arts integration workshops for teacher professional development, and served as a consultant for schools, community centers, and corporations to create curricula and facilitate trainings on arts activism, racial justice, and global education issues across the United States and beyond. After completing her Ed.M in Arts in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she began curating and co-directing an annual conference at Harvard exploring the intersection of arts education and equity in education. As a mother of two young children, she is also passionately committed to raising anti-racist kids, and founded the Triangle Area Anti-Racist Parenting Initiative to support other local parents to do the same through parenting workshops, study groups, and online community support. Carissa previously served as the Director of the Media & Arts Program for World Savvy in NYC, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. She also holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and resides with her husband and kids in Apex, North Carolina.