Portia White-Buze has been a classroom teacher since 1999 and taught kindergarten, first, ESL, and second, fifth, and sixth grades. She also spent two years teaching in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is retired from teaching in a Title 1 school district.

She has 25 years of experience mentoring students from Arizona State and other universities through various programs, student teaching, and internships.

She is passionate about projects, especially those with positive long-range impacts for the specific needs of targeted communities. She earned her BA in Elementary Education from Ottawa University and her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College of Engineering.

Portia has taught online courses at Arizona State University since the fall of 2019 and in-person courses since the Spring of 2024.