education

[august - december 2023]
nuova officina della danza | turin, it              
international contemporary dance program (ICD)

[september 2016 - june 2020]
union college | schenectady, ny              
BA with honors in english, spanish & hispanic studies, dance


awards

[june 2025]
phi beta kappa society | new york, ny
2025 love of learning professional development grant
the grant was established in honor of the phi beta kappa motto, “love of learning is the guide to life.” this grant program was designed to provide funds to members who wish to pursue endeavors to continue lifelong learning and advance in their professions; more precisely, this grant was awarded to fund italian language courses.

[june 2025]
sigma tau delta (int’l english honor society) | dekalb, il
continuing education scholarship
this scholarship is intended to assist current student or alumni members in furthering their education on a part-time or non-degree-seeking basis in areas of study that are consistent with the mission of sigma tau delta.

[july 2022 - august 2023]
the watson foundation | new york, ny    
thomas j. watson fellow
a one-year grant for pur­pose­ful, inde­pen­dent explo­ration out­side the unit­ed states. this grant culminated in a project titled, "moving stories: crafting narratives through and about dance," curated to examine how and why communities develop, shape, and tell their personal narratives through traditional dance. research was conducted across 3 continents and 7 countries, including spain, morocco, ireland, italy, japan, thailand, and indonesia.

[june - august 2018]
union college | schenectady, ny     
edward villella fellow
awarded to an exceptional dancer to expand their study of dance beyond the union college campus. trained in aerial lyra (hoop) and split silks.

[june 2018]
union college | schenectady, ny     
blake@union prize
“a letter to your majesty” elected to reside in the permanent william blake @union digital collection, linked.

[may 2017]
union college | schenectady, ny
william h. bloom, M.D. (1945) and jonathan r. bloom (1988) poetry prize
for the best poem or series of poems by an undergraduate.








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