Biography:

Childhood:

• grew up in Tacoma 

• her mother was Dominican and her father Puerto Rican-Jamaican

• started dancing when she was two

• she was inspired by Black artists and writers including Josephine Baker, Arthur Mitchell, James Baldwin, and Alive Walker

Some of Her Accomplishments:

• in 2011 when she was 14 years old she received a scholarship Pacific Northwest Ballet School (PNB)

• joined PNB in 2017 as the first Black woman soloist

• in 2019, she began the Seattle Project; a community of artists that creates new works that are "accessible to the community and uplifts BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists"

• very vocal in addressing injustice and inequality