Our Team
Yagmur Halezeroglu
Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder
Yagmur is a dancer, do-er and lover. She is passionate about community work and bringing dance back to the people. Yagmur's passion for non-profit work started in high school when she volunteered at Six Dots Foundation for the Blind in Istanbul, Turkey. Since then, she has volunteered and held coordinator positions in Berkeley Free Clinic and San Francisco General Hospital. She also facilitated and taught a student-run Lindy Hop class as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.
Jenny Herges
Content Writer
Tess Hanson
Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder
Tess is a dance lover, a practical dreamer, and a reliable problem solver. She's been making up dances since she was three years old and has continued to make dance a significant part of her life since that young age. She's managed cooperative living spaces, performing arts venues, and with Dance for All Bodies, she's now managing her first nonprofit venture. She cares deeply about people, the wellbeing of the planet, and using creative expression to ward off despair.
Sonya Rio-Glick
Co-Executive Director
Sonya is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and administrator originally from Albany, NY. She is passionate about using the arts to expand empathy, and brings this passion to DfAB.
Sonya holds a BA in Arts Management from Purchase College, SUNY, where she produced This Body's Heart, a dance production telling her story with physical disability through Contemporary dance. Also at Purchase, she was influential in reforming fire evacuation policy for students with disabilities. Additionally, Sonya released a full length documentary on disability, The Souls of our Feet, in 2015. Sonya has worked extensively with several non-profit organizations, merging her management skills with her commitment to social justice.
Jenny is a lover of dance, a free spirit, and an advocate for change. She works in Special Education in The San Francisco Bay Area. Jenny has always had a passion for the arts. Growing up, she engaged in ballet classes, modern dance, and was a violinist in the school and community orchestra. To date, she works with local community organizations to create change for people with disabilities. She also volunteers her time by providing communication access through ASL interpreting at a local drag show to support transition-aged students.
Amanda Lojeski
Event Outreach Coordinator
Amanda has a love for dance, art, music and theater. Theater has been a part of her life since high school. She has been in many of musicals over the years. She loves seeing how much joy dancing can bring to people. She enjoys creating events for DfAB’s on the website and loves being apart of DfAB’s.
Amy Lin
Graphic Design Coordinator
Amy is an extroverted optimist who wishes to be a part of a positive change. She is a lover of all forms of creative expression—from dance to music to even baking pastries and sweets. Amy is involved in her dance group on campus as Choreography Chair and enjoys spreading the joy of dance to everyone.
Shauryn da Silva
Graphic Design Coordinator
Shauryn loves art, design, music, and hiking. She likes being connected to nature. She joined DfAB because she wanted to meet new people, familiarize herself with different life experiences, and work at making her designs for accessible.
Allison Jones
Volunteer Recruitment and Communications Coordinator
Allison is a former professional dancer who felt herself moving away from "dance for dancers" post-career, in search of the raw joy of movement for all. During the coronavirus pandemic she has sought to expand her work with marginalized communities and is happy to have found DfAB. In her spare time Allison plays keyboard in a rock band, knits, and is in training to become an Intimacy Director/Coordinator for stage and screen.
Lina Moysis
Graphic Designer
Lina is a designer and illustrator with a curiosity for stories and how we tell them. She loves being active, whether it's training at the gym or cycling around Boston. She has been taking dance classes since she was little, learning traditional Greek dance as a way to stay connected to her culture and community. She joined DfAB for the same reasons! She's excited to be a part of a community that offers connection and culture to everyone.
Roma Leffmann
Instructor Coordinator
Roma loves many kinds of exercise including dance, cycling, and rock-climbing! She always feels amazing after exercising and believes that everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and flourish, especially in difficult times. She joined the Dance for All Bodies team because she wanted to help more people have access to that kind of community.
Erin Lilly
Service Designer and
Performance Analyst
Erin is a user experience researcher with a passion for making technology more accessible for others. Her work primarily centers around helping non-profit organizations improve their digital products by studying how their users interact with them. A lover of both professional and casual dance classes, Erin joined Dance for All Bodies to help them share the joy of dance with others.
Kristin Stepanek
Corporate Outreach
Kristin is a communications specialist and program manager. She has worked with non-profits and corporations to create mutually beneficial partnerships that positively impact society and the environment.
Kristin joined Dance for All Bodies to increase access to the mental and physical benefits of movement.
Kristin enjoys fitness, learning new things, and the science and art of organic gardening.
CC Huang
Social Media Coordinator
CC is a dancer, an explorer, and a good team player. Dance has been a part of her life since she started learning classical Chinese dance at the age of three. She loves to see everyone’s face when they are enjoying dancing and she hopes more people can join DfAB’s classes! She is responsible for social media (Facebook and Instagram) and tries her best to build a better community on social media for DfAB.
Cara Liebowitz
Community Engagement Coordinator
Cara is a disabled activist and writer who is passionate about expanding access to dance for people with disabilities. By day, she works for a national disability rights organization. In addition to her work with DfAB, Cara is a freelance sensitivity reader, reading and providing feedback on disability representation in unpublished manuscripts. In her increasingly limited spare time, Cara likes to read, knit, and watch sci-fi.
Rachel Shon
Class Host
Rachel loves dance, music, and playing guitar. She played soccer for 13 years and always turns to dance or sports to relieve stress. Rachel joined Dance for All Bodies to help share the beauty of dance and its ability to empower people. She is currently a student at UC Berkeley, studying cell biology and psychology.