Events

YouTube Interviews

2024 in review

    • Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas celebrates women in the Foreign Service and International Affairs

    • International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) conference in Memphis, Tennessee

    • Mother Jones Board Meeting

    • Assemblée Internationale strategy meeting

    • Washington Ballet Board Meeting

    • Mother Jones Board Meeting (San Francisco)

    • Presentation, Dance Department, Colburn School in Los Angeles

    • ADST Board Meeting

    • DC Dance community meeting with Edwaard Liang, Artistic Director Washington Ballet

    • Asemblée Internationale strategy meeting

    • African American Alumni of Vassar College 40th Anniversary and Triennial

    • Hosted Center for Investigative Reporting/ Mother Jones Dacor House Washington DC

    • International Women's Forum (IWF) Conference, New York City

    • AI 23 Meeting

    • Meeting of Prix de Lausanne Advisory Committee (Africa)

    • ADST Board Meeting

    • Toronto, National Ballet School Meetings and National Ballet of Canada and National Ballet of Canada Performance

    • Jones-Haywood Dance School end of year performance, Silver Spring Maryland

    • Meeting of Prix de Lausanne Advisory Committee (Africa), Toronto

    • AI 23 meeting of group leaders

    • Zoom meeting with BTBB educators & Johannesburg Ballet School Teachers, Executive Director and Andile Ndlovu

    • AI 23 meeting of group leaders

    • Washington Ballet Retreat

    • International Career Advancement Program (ICAP) Speaker & Mentor, Aspen

    • Board Meeting Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)/ Mother Jones, Chicago

    • Zoom meeting with BTBB educators & Johannesburg Ballet School Teachers and Executive Director

Previous Years in Review

2023 in Review

    • Washington Ballet’s Principale Dancer Gian Carlo master class with Beyond the Ballet Barre Students, St. James

    • Mother Jones’ Board Meeting San Franciso

    • Dance Theatre of Harlem Tribute to Retiring Artistic Director Virginia Johnson

    • Washington Ballet annual Gala

    • Assemblée Internationale in Toronto

    • Audiobook launch

    • Senior Advisor and Speaker at International Career Advancement Program (ICAP)

    • University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Presenter

    • Mother Jones Board of Trustees meeting in San Francisco

    • Students from Canada’s National Ballet School visit to Washington DC (BTBB exchange)

    • Member and Participant at International Women’s Forum World Leadership Conference in Detroit

    • Board and Search Committee member select Edwaard Laing as new artistic director of the Washington Ballet

    • ADST annual general meeting

    • Co-hosted book for launch of Eileen Casidy’s book

    • Honoree for service to the youth in arts at The Society Incorporated DC Chapter’s 40th anniversary

    • Researched post-apartheid inclusion and diversity in ballet: Johannesburg, Soweto, Auckland Park, Cape Town, Gugulethu

    • BTBB students go to Canada’s national ballet school in Toronto

    • ADST Board of trustee meeting

    • Traveled to Maputo, Mozambique; Benguela and Luanda, Angola; Paris, France to meet dance communities and family

2022 in review

    • Interview with Tigner Rand on Rolling Out

    • Interview with Author Dee Lawrence

    • The Inaugural Canada-United States Symposium: "Addressing Racialization in Ballet" Co-Hosted by Canada's National Ballet School, Dance Institute of Washington, and Lauri Fitz-Pegado

    • Conversation about Cultural and Commercial Diplomacy with the Women's National Democratic club

    • Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST)

    • Barnes & Noble Potomac Yard

    • Vassar College Roommate Interview with Karen Cox

    • The 2nd Session of The Canada-United States Symposium: "Addressing Racialization in Ballet" Co-Hosted by Canada's National Ballet School, Dance Institute of Washington, and Lauri Fitz-Pegado

    • Bee Chat Book Club

    • Wednesday Morning Book Club

    • Becoming Your Best Version Podcast Interview with Maria Olsen

    • Channel Islands Chapter of the Links "Lunch and Learn"

    • On campus presentations, Vassar College:

    • Dance Department

    • ALANA

    • African-American Alumnae/i of Vassar College (AAAVC) Meeting with Black Students

    • The Collective showing to local students of "Beyond Moving" featuring the life story of Siphe November of The National Ballet of Canada

    • Barnes & Noble Potomac Yard Alexandria, Virginia Interview

    • Book Talk at Becket Athenaeum, The Berkshires

    • The Collective Teachers Visit and Master Classes at Canada's National Ballet School

    • International Career Advancement Program (ICAP), Aspen, Colorado, Senior Advisor

    • Book Launch", The Young Black Leader's Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs", one of the featured interviews

    • Joined The Washington Ballet's Board of Trustees

    • Joined Mother Jones' Board of Trustees

    • Cultural Diplomacy Presentation for Class at Tufts University

    • Beyond the Ballet Barre Hosts Students in Washington D.C. from Canada's National Ballet School

    • Nightingale Bamford School Book Presentation

    • St. Alban's Episcopal Church Book Presentation

    • First Sunday Book Club

    • The Collective Students Visit Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto

    • Hosted a Salon featuring Mother Jones' investigative journalist Ari Berman

    • Named to Search Committee for new Washington Ballet artistic director

2021 in review

    • Book Event Hosted by Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley

    • Book Event Hosted By Penny McIntyre & Cory Molina

    • Book Event Hosted By Julie Kent, Artistic Director, The Washington Ballet

    • Book Event Hosted By Sally Painter & Karen Tramontano

    • Book Event Hosted by Eileen Cassidy Rivera & Andy Rivera

    • International Women's Forum/DC Fall Read Around

    • Facebook Live Interview with Emily Barrosse

    • Conversation with the Author Hosted by Dance Institute of Washington

    • "State of the Woman" Holiday Celebration Co-Hosted By LETTS CONSULT & United Bank

    • Conversation with the Author Hosted by Barnes & Noble 5th Avenue, New York City

    • Becoming Your Best Version Podcast Interview with Maria Olsen

    • Good Day Orange County Interview