Laura Epperson is a performance maker, teaching artist, and youth worker imagining just and joyful futures through reflective and collaborative artistic processes. She has over ten years of experience working in schools and communities in the U.S. and internationally. Laura’s work explores how healing-centered engagement and rigorous aesthetic practice supports people in identifying, dismantling, and reimagining unjust systems. She believes collaborative arts allow us to connect with and support ourselves and one another. Laura is passionate about working in and with communities that value storytelling, embodiment, and youth leadership as acts of healing-justice. She is currently a post-MFA fellow in applied performance with the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.