Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, permaculturist, organizer, and artist.
In various positions, she has dedicated her life to working with underprivileged youth as a facilitator of learning, offering them tools to becoming their best self. She started a Permaculture & Restorative Justice program at Claremont Middle School in Oakland, where together she and her students learn about growing food, art, creating regenerative systems, current events, and social justice, all while practicing restorative justice. Alexa has been exploring alternative avenues of education in search of piecing together an “Educational Utopia” where justice and compassion are at the forefront.
She has taught in over seventy public schools, knowing thousands of children by name in New York City and Oakland, California.
Alexa is part of the California BioRegional Crew and serves as one of its “double links” into the Core Crew. Alexa is also part of the Media Working Group and Fundraising Working Group. She especially loves organizing Permaculture Action Days, facilitating youth workshops, and offering workshops in Permaculture Action Hubs at festivals.