Levar Burton

LeVar Burton is an acclaimed actor, director, educator, and co-founder of the award-winning Skybrary app; former host and executive producer of PBS’s READING RAINBOW, and a lifelong children’s literacy advocate. He hosts the podcast LEVAR BURTON READS sharing the best in short fiction, and a YouTube series, THIS IS MY STORY, which highlights racism in America. The LEVAR BURTON BOOK CLUB lives on Fable, a new platform designed for book clubs and for social reading with the mission to improve mental wellness.

LeVar starred as Kunta Kinte, in the groundbreaking mini-series ROOTS and in the television series and feature films STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge, chief engineer of the Enterprise. He has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and twenty-seven Daytime Emmy nominations, culminating in twenty-one wins. During it’s astonishing twenty-six year run, READING RAINBOW was not only one of the longest running children’s television shows in history but won more than twenty-five awards, including ten for outstanding series and the George Foster Peabody Award. LeVar has also been nominated twice for the Spoken Word Grammy Award and won in 1991 for narrating The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.