Team AADF

Joyce Lien Kushner

Co-Organizer

TILTshift Dance Founder/Director, Joyce Lien Kushner (she/her), is a Taiwanese-American dance artist, teacher, and maker. Throughout her years, Joyce has trained dancers of all ages and has performed and collaborated with artists all over California – Modern City Repertoire, Strong Pulse Dance, Epiphany Dance Theater, Surhabi Suraf, Sarah Bush Dance, Amy Lewis, Five Feet Dance, and Chris Black Dance. In 2015, Joyce founded TILTshift Dance in San Francisco. Now in San Diego, she continues to teach, make work, and holds open space for other dance artists to create and work. In 2024, she was awarded an 18-month artist residency by NTC Foundation in ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station to help further these endeavors. Joyce currently teaches youth and adults throughout San Diego County. She also proudly serves on the board of Disco Riot. Read more about Joyce here.

Instagram @cocozenmama @tiltshiftdance

Dr. grace shinhae jun

Co-Organizer

grace shinhae jun(she/her) is a mother, wife, artist, scholar, educator, and mover. She has performed nationally and internationally with bkSOUL performance collective which she founded in 2001. Her research and artistic practices are grounded in Hip Hop culture and cross cultural collaborations that challenge the systems of violence and oppression steeped in anti-Blackness. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at San Diego City College, teaches with transcenDANCE Youth Arts, and at UCSD where she was the recipient of the 2022/2023 Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award. Ph.D. Drama & Theatre UCSD/UCI, MFA Dance Sarah Lawrence College. Read more about grace here.

Webiste www.bksoul.org

Instagram @dr.mamagrace

Aisha Reddick

Lead Volunteer - Community Showcase & Collaborative Residency

Aisha Reddick (she/her) is an African American/Filipino movement artist and instructor based in San Diego, California. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at California State University, Long Beach in Fall 2021. Since graduating, Aisha has made work that has been presented across the west coast for various concerts/showcases and festivals. In her practice, Aisha finds fulfillment in moving between juxtaposing gentle and aggressive powers to create a flow into and through the body. Presently, Aisha shares this way of moving at DISCO RIOT, Culture Shock San Diego, BalletCenter Studios, Helix Charter High School and Canyon Crest Academy.

Website - aishahsia.cargo.site

Instagram @ahsia

Nicole Oga

Lead Volunteer - Dance Film Screening

Nicole Oga (she/her) is a radical thinking dance artist, educator, and pedagogue who approaches her work through an intersectional lens that is influenced by abolition, collective liberation, anti-racist, black feminist praxis. In June 2024 she graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki with a Master’s in Dance Pedagogy. Nicole works and resides on unceded Kumeyaay land, where she currently does dance education and outreach work with DISCO RIOT and teaches at Grossmont College. In her work she regularly questions and evaluates her practices and methodologies to ensure she is inclusive and in true solidarity with her community – listening to, collaborating with, and following the lead of those who are most impacted. She cultivates genuine empathy, compassion, and kindness, which she knows will transform the world into an equitable society where all are truly free

PC: Antti Rintala

Instagram @dancingoga

Des Anano

Volunteer - Graphic Designer

Des Enano (she/her) is an artist and designer born and raised in San Diego, California. She received her BFA in Illustration at ArtCenter College of Design in 2020 and now works as an illustrator and graphic designer with clients such as Rotten Tomatoes, Google, and The New York Times. She finds joy in drawing the quiet moments in life and inspiring stories rooted in our connection with others.

Website - desenano.com