Latasha McQueen

Latasha Oliver serves as Whole Family Advocate at Total Action for Progress, a nonprofit organization in Roanoke, Virginia, that operates the Head Start and Early Head Start programs. In this role, she provides family advocacy, case management, resource navigation, crisis support, and community outreach to help families from marginalized backgrounds build self-sufficiency, with a focus on ensuring children thrive by supporting their home environments. She has approximately 6 or 7 years of experience in the human services and early childhood education field. Latasha earned her Master's of Art in Applied Psychology from Liberty University after completing the program in about 15 months while working full time, and she holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Arizona State University, which she completed in 2022. Originally from California, she relocated to Roanoke in 2019 and is the first in her family to earn a master's degree. She attributes her drive and success to her son and the desire to create a better path than the one modeled by previous generations in her family, emphasizing values of community, determination, integrity, and self-made achievement.