Jazelynn Goudy: A gravity-defying interdisciplinary performing artist, scholar, and Elliot Norton Award-winning choreographer whose Black girl movement vocabulary is an array of life experiences interacting with interactive media, light, sound, and collaging. With a Bachelor of Science from The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and an MFA from The Ohio State University, her training includes studios and conventions in the Midwest region, the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, Germaine Acogny’s Ecole des Sables, Ko-Thi West African Dance Company, Clubs, Churches, and research abroad within the African Diaspora. She is an Assistant Professor at Marymount Manhattan College, Co-Founder of Thick Like Me. . ., a Steering Committee member of the Coalition of Diasporan Scholars Moving, a Board of Trustees for Ladies of Hip Hop, and a guest artist for Sydnie L Mosely Dance Company. She is committed to using her platform to amplify marginalized voices and drive social change, particularly for Black women and girls.