Femmel De La Rosa/Senior Teaching artist

Femmel de la Rosa has been a teaching artist for Dance to Unite for over a decade! Since 2015 when she started as an Assistant Teacher Intern, progressed to Lead Teacher and has been part of our Teaching Artists staff since 2017. She specializes in social Latin dance such as: Salsa, Bachata, and Merengue. She has a minor in dance with a concentration in choreography and improvisation from Lehman College. Also, she organizes and choreographs dance routines for talent shows in her Hispanic community and the school where she teaches English as a New Language during the day. 

Kate Engelhart/Senior Teaching artist

Kate Engelhart has been a Dance to Unite teaching artist for the last seven years! Kate was born and raised in Hunterdon County, New Jersey where she developed a love of dance from a young age. While training in classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Mill Ballet School in Lambertville, NJ, she had opportunities to dance professionally with the Roxey Ballet Company as well as participate in community outreach and diversity programs. Kate cultivated a deep appreciation for diversity through seeing dancers from around the world come together to share their art.

Kate moved to New York City to pursue a degree in Nursing and is forever grateful to have found Dance to Unite in the spring of 2018. She joined Dance to Unite through the internship program and progressed from an assistant teacher to co-lead teacher to teaching artist and trainer in the Dance to Unite Teaching Method. Kate has been the organization’s coordinator and administrator since 2019.

Kate continues her work with Dance to Unite while working full time as a Registered Nurse in Manhattan. She achieved her Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse certification and a Master’s Degree in Nursing Education. Kate hopes to combine her passions for community, education, culture, and health for the betterment and investment of youth.

brandon goldstein

Brandon Goldstein recently graduated from New York University with a study in Economics and Psychology. He was born and raised in San Jose, California, where he took Russian folk dance classes at Firebird Dance Studio outside of school for 11 years. Starting at 6 years old, Brandon has been performing at Russian centers, festivals, and homes for the elderly. He even won an international dance competition in Spain with Firebird's Armenian all-boys group dance in July 2019. After moving to New York, Brandon joined Dance to Unite in 2022 and is now starting his third year with us! Through Dance to Unite, Brandon hopes to share his ideas about how dance can bring people together and create everlasting positive relationships with people from all over the world.

GEENA KIM

Geena Kim is a recent graduate of Columbia University studying biology and dance. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she found a rich appreciation for diversity and community building when she moved to the US in 8th grade to attend school in Connecticut. Since moving to New York, volunteering with Dance to Unite has been one of the most meaningful experiences for her. She is grateful to have found a community of people who are driven by the same passion to foster a tight-knit community grounded in positive values. She joined the Dance to Unite team last year as an intern and has since progressed to a member of the staff as a TikTok manager while continuing teaching as a co-lead teacher in CPC PS 2. She is thrilled to be giving back to the dance community by teaching the future generation not only the steps but to see the big picture, appreciate cultural diversity, and communicate with one another through the universal language.

Cara Trinidad

Cara was brought up in Manila, Philippines where she trained in classical ballet, modern, and contemporary from age 4. She was a full scholar at Academy One Music and Dance Center under the tutelage of Cherish Garcia, Pamela Asprer-Espejo, and Jeffrey Espejo. This opened up the path to train and compete in both local and international settings. Some notable experiences being the Asian Grand Prix in 2012, and the Joffrey Ballet Summer Intensive in New York in 2015. She became a homegrown teacher at Academy One as well.

Upon graduating as Bachelor of Music in Dance in the University of the Philippines, she moved to New York and has since been teaching ballet and creative movement at multiple schools and programs in Queens. She's just completed her first full year as a teaching artist of Dance to Unite.

Cara is also an ABT® Certified Teacher, and has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.

Dance has been Cara’s lifelong companion. She sees Dance to Unite as an opportunity to give back through her craft - using the joy of movement to bring people together. 

eryn woo

Eryn Woo is an actor, singer, and dancer based in NYC. Originally from SC, Eryn Woo grew up training and doing community theatre all around her hometown. She has been dancing since she was 7 and has training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and musical theatre. Eryn has served as a teaching artist at the South Carolina Children’s Theatre and Spartanburg Little Theatre during their summer programs. She is a graduate from Pace University (BFA FTVC) and Broadway Dance Center’s Independent Training Program. You can catch Eryn all around the city teaching at Pure Barre studios across Brooklyn and Manhattan.

juliann craft

Juliann Craft is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based here in New York. She has been teaching dance for four years and earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May. Juliann has taught students from ages three to seventeen and values creating warm, encouraging classroom environments for these students to thrive in. While most of this instructing experience comes from an independent dance studio setting, Dance to Unite is her first time instructing in an after school program. She strongly believes in Dance to Unite's vision and uses inspiration and strategies from her experience with Brain Compatible Dance Education to create lessons around the thirteen values. Juliann is passionate about movement, knows that a moving body leads to a healthy mind, and truly believes in Dance to Unite’s ability to promote critical thinking, community, and the joy of movement. She feels very grateful to have this opportunity to guide your children through this school year and see them grow into beautiful dancers and beautiful people.

SREYA SATHISH KUMAR

Sreya is a sophomore studying neuroscience at Columbia College. Sreya Sathish Kumar began ballet in Seattle, Washington, at four. She later continued her journey to the Ellison Ballet Professional Program, where she danced for two years before getting accepted into Columbia University. Sreya continues to dance in college and hopes that by being a part of Dance to Unite, she can create a fulfilling environment that brings happiness to young kids and makes dance accessible to people from all backgrounds.

Hannah Keene

Hannah Keene of Wellesley, Massachusetts was a professional ballet dancer for twelve years with the Boston Ballet, the Kansas City Ballet, and the Los Angeles Ballet. She has also been teaching ballet for the last ten years and Pilates for the last four years. She completed her Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University while she was dancing professionally and moved to New York City a year ago to pursue a Master’s Degree at Columbia University. She is so excited to join the Dance to Unite organization to spread important values through dance and movement. 

Sia SIngh

Siarah (Sia) Singh is a Teaching Artist for Dance to Unite, serving weekly in the Lower East Side, and is a member of the new Girls to Unite section after being a Guest Artist in 2024. A Key West, Florida native, Sia has 15 years of classical Vaganova training and eight years of competitive experience across jazz, contemporary, hip hop, and ballet, competing at major events like The Dance Awards, Nuvo, and Radix.  

Sia is on the pre-med track as a sophomore at NYU, majoring in Biology with minors in Chemistry, Dance, and South Asian Studies. Outside of her studies, she serves as a CAS College Leader, is a writer for a Medical Dialogue Review journal, and is a FORM Community Leader. Driven by a passion for service, she is also the co-founder of ReCover, an initiative focused on addressing the growing needs of New York City's homeless population.