MKArts 

MK's dance and cultural organizing moves within and alongside the legacies of companies and choreographers she performed with for more than a decade including, Gesel Mason, Liz Lerman, Urban Bush Women, and the Dance Exchange. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and chairs the Racial Equity, Arts, and Culture Core of VCU's ICubed, the Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry & Innovation. As an educator, they are sought out for their keen ability to facilitate group learning as unique communities of shared wisdom, and embodied knowledge. She’s worked with students as a guest artist at Towson University, Texas A&M, New York University, the University of  Richmond, the University of Maryland, Brown University, James Madison University, East Carolina University, Dickinson College and the University of Virginia. She earned her BFA in dance education with a concentration in modern dance and a minor in strategic advertising from the University of the Arts. They also minored in African studies as an international student at the University of Ghana, and hold an MFA in dance from the University of Maryland.