LaStarsha is an alumna of Texas Southern University, a historically Black college or university (HBCU) in Houston, where she received a BA in Art and with a minor in Chemistry. After completing her BA, LaStarsha was the Director's Fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, and the Ford Foundation Conservation Intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. She served as the summer 2017 conservation intern at both the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. LaStarsha completed her third year at the Brooklyn Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She is currently the Conservator and Co-Director of the Legacy Museum at Tuskegee University.