murrayco@yorku.ca
Collette Murray is a multi-award-winning artist-scholar, dance educator, cultural arts programmer and arts consultant. Murray pursues a Ph.D. in Dance Studies at York University focusing on dance education and anti-racist dance pedagogies. Murray’s publications, advocacy and arts research centre around cultural arts education, decolonization in the arts and education sectors, and in amplifying African diasporic dance practices. Murray is Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dance Umbrella of Ontario and serves as a National Board member of the Canadian Dance Assembly. Murray presents at national and international conferences, and is the Artistic Director of Coco Collective offering culturally responsive projects that connect participants to African and Caribbean arts and operates her mobile dance education business (www.misscocomurray.com).