Recipient Information
Location
Cleveland/Clarksdale, Mississippi
Year of Award
2023
Grant or Fellowship
Leaders of Color Fellowship
Grant Amount
$0
Javette O. White
Director of Dance and Movement, Griot Arts Center
Javette O. White currently serves as the director of dance and movement at Griot Arts Center. As a native of Cleveland, Mississippi, White is a graduate of East Side High School, Mississippi Delta Community College, and Delta State University. She served 13 years as a dance educator and arts consultant in the Clarksdale Municipal School District and 3 years with Memphis/Shelby County School District teaching kindergarten through 8th grade. White began her dance education at Lynn Pace Dance School at age four and then continued her dance aspirations as a member and senior captain of the Golden Dolls Majorette Squad at East Side High School and as a Delta Dancer at Mississippi Delta Community College and captain and co-captain of the Delta Belles at Delta State University. White spent much of her spare time enhancing the lives and dance aspirations of young people through the Delta Arts Alliance in Cleveland and Griot Arts after-school program in Clarksdale and served as the artistic director and choreographer of the Jazzy Divas Dance Studio, where she performed in several competitions and community events in the state of Mississippi and other states. White has choreographed routines for pageants, middle/high school dance teams, and community college dance teams and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the National Dance Education Organization.