“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone . . . and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
— Sandra Day O’Connor

BUILDING CREATIVE COMMUNITY TOGETHER

I invite you to learn more about some of the ways I engage in leadership and support communities through programming and events! Contact me if you are interested in discussing a collaboration or partnership around these topics.

LEADERSHIP

As an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, I am part of a global community of leaders striving to improve brain health for populations across the world. Learn more about the ways I galvanize communities around creative expression in support of promoting brain health across the lifespan.

I engage in supporting current and future dance educators, teaching artists, health professionals and the general public in expanding their understanding of and best practices in creative aging and brain health. Learn more about how I support dance education initiatives .

Learn more about creative aging and how we can harness our individual and collective power of creative expression, to rewrite narratives around aging and dementia and design systems that support a present and a future we all would want to age into together.

PROGRAMMING

I believe that part of the challenges we face around dementia and aging in the United States is that we are in desperate need of rewriting social narratives to person-centered systems, which view people not through the metric of what they can produce, but who there are, uniquely.

Learn more about the classes I offer for individual fitness, creative engagement for people living with dementia, creative programs for older adults that support brain health and group dance engagements for building creative community.

PERFORMANCE & SPEAKING EVENTS

Learn more about my on-going and past performances, creative projects, collaborations.

Learn more and engage with upcoming speaking events.

ADVOCACY & SERVICE

I engage in service and advocacy on national and global levels.

• National Dance Education Organization
Supporting access, equity and inclusion in the dance education community. Recipient of Executive Director Award in 2021.

  • Dance and Disability Taskforce

  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Taskforce

• NGO Committee on Ageing, New York
Promoting human rights of older persons

  • (forthcoming) Executive Committee, Member-at-Large; Representative of Generations United

  • Co-Chair UN international Day of Older Persons 2021

  • Member Communications Sub-Committee

• Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute
Working to design and expand access to creative aging programs that support brain health across the life span.