Elizabeth Sugawara (she/her) is a creative dance educator supporting art communities that celebrate and value diversity and inclusion. She has a BA in Art History and Dance from UC Santa Cruz, advocating cross- disciplinary art studies in elementary and higher education. Elizabeth continued to study dance improvisation and performance at Copenhagen Contemporary School of Dance and then relocated to the PNW as a teaching artist in Early Childhood Education and Seattle Public Schools, joining the CDC faculty in 2019. As a Seattle-based dance maker and movement artist, Elizabeth continues to perform and support works that value community and the stories of women of color, working with Veronica Lee-Baik (The Three Yells), Maya Soto and Nico Tower (SOTO+TOWER), Alicia Mullikin, Au Collective and many others.