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rachel lawal
Rachel Lawal is a DC-based modern dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist. As an instructor, she works with early childhood classrooms and middle-school aged youth. She is also a trained Pilates instructor and authorized Scolio-Pilates practitioner. She is a native New Yorker and as a youth trained the Brooklyn College Center for the Performing Arts, USDAN Center for the Arts, and Alvin Ailey summer intensive. She trained in classical ballet and the Humphrey Technique in modern. Her other interests include real estate, finance, and financial crimes research. Her home is now Washington, DC, where she has lived and worked for the past 20 years..