Dr. Aisha White earned her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Media Communications, Library Science, and Library and Information Science respectively.

She is the director of The P.R.I.D.E. Program (positive racial identity development in early education) at the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development. Her work involves overseeing program strategies that support young Black children ages 0 to 8 in developing a positive racial identity, by increasing the racial knowledge and improving the skills of the important adults in their lives. Her racial awareness work spans close to 20 years, and she has gained decades of experience coordinating programs that focused on emergent literacy, educational media, kindergarten transition, and the arts.

That work has included positions at Beginning With Books, The National Black Programming Consortium, Family Communications Inc. (now Fred Rogers Productions), and Ready Freddy Pathways to Kindergarten Success. Parallel to her professional career, she has been engaged in decades of political, arts, and social activism efforts such as the Pittsburgh By-District City Council Campaign, Anti-Apartheid and Anti-war organizing, the Harambee II Black Arts Festival, and African human rights film efforts.

Along with consulting on Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, she is currently a consultant with Committee for Children’s Imagine Neighborhood podcast and PBS. Additionally, she has appeared on a number of news and podcast outlets including CNN International and Teaching Hard History, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching for Change program.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, she spent her early days growing up in public housing in the city’s historic Hill District. She is a mother of two and grandmother of four.