Alisha Eastep is an educator and performer turned activist and lawyer with two decades of experience. Alisha has been captivated by the power of words since her first classroom presentation, and knows first-hand the importance of strong adult mentors and educators.

As a child from Bakersfield, California, Alisha has competed on the national level individually and in groups, earning accolades in speech and debate, “The Citizen and the Constitution” Competition, and has had numerous roles in community theater and on the stage. She is also a published writer and researcher with 16 years of experience, and has earned faculty recognition for her honors research project on a theater community at UC Berkeley in 2011, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Rhetoric and Anthropology.

As an educator, Alisha nurtured the minds of children of all ages and developmental abilities for over a decade and listened to each of her pupils to get a sense of their individual needs. Alisha gained valuable knowledge teaching educational curriculum, empowering social and living skills, and workplace training.

Alisha Eastep was born in the Central Valley of California, where she attended public school and began her college education at the local junior college, earning an AA in Communication and Psychology. She transferred in 2008, and graduated from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric and Anthropology in 2010. She received the faculty prize for Rhetoric in Action for her honors thesis and graduated in the top of her class. Since then, she has taught in both professional and educational settings and is a national debate champion. 

In 2020 and 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, Alisha acquired her J.D. from America and her LL.M. from England, with an emphasis on environmental justice, international law, and migration law.