Candace Thompson-Zachery

Candace Thompson-Zachery, based in Brooklyn and originally from Trinidad and Tobago, is a dancer, choreographer and cultural producer, with a vested interest in Caribbean dance and culture. She is the founder of Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE, an initiative that supports and presents Caribbean dance performance in NYC and produces her own choreographic work through the project ContempoCaribe. She is a graduate of the Performance Curation program at ICPP at Wesleyan University and has been recently appointed Manager of Justice, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives at Dance/NYC - a non-profit umbrella organization for dance in New York City.