Letia Larok / Executive Director
Artist, activist and educator Letia Larok brings her passion for storytelling and healing through music onto the stage, into the classroom and into our community as TCP’s Executive Director.
Her lifelong love for the arts has driven her to use the power of music as a tool for purpose and change. In 2012, she collaborated on What is Beautiful Never Dies, a music therapy project that connected families who lost loved ones to violence with hip-hop artists, transforming their stories into songs.
Since 2008, Letia Larok has been deeply involved in cultural healing and community building, collaborating with inmates through the African Heritage Coalition program. As a returning guest and performer, she has visited multiple prisons over the years, participating in events led by inmates. Her personal experiences with having loved ones behind the wall gave her an up-close understanding of systemic oppression and recurring injustices that plague communities—fueling her motivation to ‘give a voice to the voiceless.’
Larok views her presence in these spaces as a representation of those she holds dear and remains committed to strengthening and rebuilding community reunification. She currently serves on the board for AccessMA, a charity organization dedicated to expanding access to health and human resources for incarcerated individuals, their families, and impacted communities.
Letia has won multiple awards, including two New England Urban Music Awards and two Mass Industry Committee Hip Hop Awards. She has also been nominated for The Boston Phoenix’s “Best Music Poll” and a “Boston Music Award” for “Outstanding Rap/Hip Hop Act of the Year.” Letia has appeared on BET, and has opened for and collaborated with numerous artists, contributing to multiple projects.
Prior to joining TCP, Letia’s had an extensive history working with Boston youths and organizations serving as a mentor and facilitating workshops focused on arts activism, community building, and restoration. Some of that history includes working as a tutor and teaching assistant for the B.E.L.L Foundation, a “Generation Next” mentor for the National Black College Alliance, completing 28 hours of youth development training at the B.E.S.T Initiative Training Institute, leading Hip Hop workshops for Diploma Plus “Arts week” at Charlestown High, poetry workshops for Oxfam’s Change week and serving as an artistic advisor mentoring youth at the “Hip Hop Transformation’s” summer program.
In 2015 Larok was hired by the Transformative Culture Project as a teaching artist leading “Art of Hip Hop” classes in Boston Public Schools promoting art as a powerful outlet for expression and social change. Letia went on to became TCP’s Education Director for the Creative Classrooms program allowing her to enhance arts education in Boston Public schools and connecting other artists with the opportunity to share their gifts with the next generation. Since November 2021 Letia has served as TCP’s Executive Director continuing her dedication to change and healing through music and the arts!
