Melissa Hudson Bell is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and scholar based in Oakland. A dance nerd through and through, she holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography and a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies. She has taught at Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley, and University of San Francisco and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, In Dance, and Life as a Modern Dancer. She is currently a member of the Belonging Resident Company, the dance research arm of the Othering and Belonging Institute. Hudson Bell is also the co-founder of a racial justice-oriented media production company called Who’s With Me.
