Leslie has "given back" to her community for years as a mentor and teacher with teens and young adults. First as Creator/Artistic Director of a Summer Youth Arts Employment Project that provided summer job opportunities to provide training in all aspects of theatre with a production of "The Wiz", to co-creating "Wanna Play" performing arts camps with a Windsor theatre company, to working with students in schools to create new theatre productions (SWAGGOR - Students With A Genuine Grip On Reality) and serving as lead mentor for young performers cast in the summer intensive theatre arts project produced by Arts Collective Theatre (ACT).  She is available for private coaching in modern dance and acting techniques and voice for actors as well.