From Oakland (Ohlone land), Mika Lemoine is a dancer, educator, speaker, and writer, and serves as the Operations Associate and Resident Teaching Artist at the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area. She holds a BA in Dance from UCLA’s department of World Arts and Cultures. Mika spent 11 years as a Senior Teaching Artist Mentor at Destiny Arts Center, holding space for young people to build community, leadership, and creativity through Hip hop and Street Dance and their lineage and social context. During her tenure there, she co-authored a 100 page Creative Youth Development curriculum guide for Hip hop and Street Dance educators and directed their pre-professional Destiny Junior Performance Company for 7 years. She is an alum of the Luna Dance Summer Institute, the Community Arts Education Leadership and Intercultural Institute, and ACOE’s Integrated Learning Specialist Program. Mika has facilitated professional development for UC Berkeley’s Teacher Education Program, American Conservatory Theater’s MFA Citizen Artists Program, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Contra Costa County Office of Education. She is deeply invested in antiracism and equity, and has offered group and individual coaching in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for Goodwin Proctor LLP, California Academy of Sciences, CashApp, and the City of San Francisco Racial Equity Arts Working Group. Mika values justice, creativity, connection, and inquiry.