Experience

Texas Fair Defense Project

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Associate

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Grant writing and fundraising Grant writing and fundraising



Freelance

• Central Texas

• Non Profit Administrator, Choreographer, Movement Instructor

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  I teach ballet at the university and conservatory level, choreograph regionally, and instruct dance, yoga and water exercise locally. I share my administrative skills on a voluntary basis, but am looking to be more gainfully employed at the executive level with the skillset acquired from 16 years running a non profit I founded and directed. I teach ballet at the university and conservatory level, choreograph regionally, and instruct dance, yoga and water exercise locally. I share my administrative skills on a voluntary basis, but am looking to be more gainfully employed at the executive level with the skillset acquired from 16 years running a non profit I founded and directed.



Texas State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor of Ballet, Musical Theatre Program

  • Aug 2021 - Jul 2022



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Guest Ballet Instructor

  • Jan 2017 - May 2019

  Taught and graded Ballet courses for all Dance Majors in the College of Theatre and Dance. Choreographed, advised, and oversaw performances for the Spring Dance Concert. Taught and graded Ballet courses for all Dance Majors in the College of Theatre and Dance. Choreographed, advised, and oversaw performances for the Spring Dance Concert.



Houston Ballet Academy

• Houston, Texas Area

• Adult Ballet Teacher

  • Aug 1998 - Jun 2015

  I taught Adult students in morning and evening classes at their studios on West Gray and later at the new HB Center for Dance. I also substituted in the upper levels of the Academy and choreographed on Level 8 students. I taught Adult students in morning and evening classes at their studios on West Gray and later at the new HB Center for Dance. I also substituted in the upper levels of the Academy and choreographed on Level 8 students.



Earthen Vessels, The Sandra Organ Dance Company

• Houston, Texas

• Founding Artistic and Executive Director

  • Jul 1998 - Jun 2014

  I founded this contemporary ballet ensemble to educate and diversify the audience for contemporary ballet. For sixteen seasons, I choreographed and presented work to a growing minority majority community with relevant content, with our signature Black History Month Series, featuring the history, music, art, and pride of my American heritage. Later we presented James Sewell's choreography of Amahl and the Night Visitors, which incorporated American Sign Language into the dancing of this holiday operetta in English, and Si Se Puede, dances based on the legacy of Cesar Chavez, celebrating our Latino communities. We presented a Sacred Dance Series in worship venues, performed site specific works with museums and outdoor spaces, collaborating with over three dozen other entities. EVSODC brought hundreds of children and families to see their first ballet experience in a theatre, and had some form of audience participation, as well as a talkback after every performance. We employed 110 dances artists, fundraised over a half a million dollars, and created over 100 ballets in our sixteen years of programming. Show less



Houston Ballet

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Soloist, Corps De Ballet

  • Aug 1982 - Jun 1998

  I joined the Houston Ballet, under the Artistic Direction of Ben Stevenson, after being on scholarship with its Academy in, 1982, and became its first African American ballerina. I was promoted to Soloist in 1985. I served as an AGMA Union Representative, and later as Rehearsal Assistant for the ballets of Christopher Bruce before retiring from the Company as a dancer after 15 seasons, in 1998. I danced in all the classical works of Ben Stevenson, toured Europe, England, Malaysia, China, Edinburgh, and made a Houston Ballet film with Danish Radio of Bruce's Ghost Dances, in which I dance the Woman in the Red Dress. I also performed in the works of Sir Kenneth MacMillian, Frederic Ashton, Anthony Tudor, Glen Tetley, Jiri Kylian, Lila York, James Kudelka, Helgi Tomasson, and Trey McIntyre, to name a few. Show less