Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson is an intimacy choreographer, vocalist, performance artist, and award-winning poet from Brooklyn, NY. She uses theatre and media to investigate race, sexuality, and human rights. Her critical and creative work appears in Routledge, Black Camera, Qualitative Inquiry, Boston University Press, International Review of Qualitative Research, Theatre Topics, Howlround and Research in Drama Education. Select Theaters: The Huntington, Fresh Ink, Jewel Box Theatre in NYC, Arts at the Armory (Somerville), LSU, Northeastern, Company One, StageSource, and the DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival. Education: MFA from CalArts; PhD from UMass Amherst. youtube.com/c/DrAyshiaTV