Staff and Faculty
Administrative Staff
Leadership
Co-Director, The Ailey School
Tracy Inman
Co-Director, The Ailey School
Melanie Person
Business Office and Financial Aid
Director of School Business Operations
James Paulson
Email or call x9511
Bursar
Jennifer Yoh-Quinones
Email or call x9519
Professional Division
Director of Professional Division
Tracy Inman
Email or call x9515
Director, Ailey/Fordham BFA Program
Melanie Person
Email or call x9516
Director of Admissions & Student Affairs
JoAnne Ruggeri
Email or call x9513
BFA Program Manager/Assistant to Melanie Person, Ailey School Co-Director
Emily Riehle
Email or call X9124
School Production Administrator
Kaitlyn Miller
Email or call x9140
Rehearsal Director, Ailey/Fordham Student Dancers
Lakey Evans-Peña
Email or call x9520
Admissions Officer
Cristina Sabater
Email or call x9136
Registrar
Dena Hardee
Email or call x9518
Assistant to Tracy Inman, Ailey School Co-Director
Michela Boschetto
Email or call X9133
Administrative Support Coordinator
Ashley Henry
Email or call x9020
Junior Division
Director, Junior Division
Tiffany Barnes
Email or call x9141
Junior Division Associate Director
Dawn-Marie Tricarico
Email or call x9143
Junior Division Program Supervisor
Merceditas Mañago-Alexander
Email or call x9122
Junior Division Enrollment & Special Projects Coordinator
Pauline Braxton
Email or call x9132
PPAS Program Administrator
Guillermo Asca
Email or call x9126
Summer Housing Coordinator
Email or call x9138
Production Staff and Studio Manager
Production Administrator
Kaitlyn Miller
Email or call x9140
Costume Coordinator
Mark Eric Rodriguez
Email or call x9039
Studio Operations Manager
Jason Jude Hill
Email or call x9146
Physical Therapist
Sheyi Ojofeitimi, MPT
Email or call x9073
Faculty Advisors
Students wishing to schedule an appointment with their advisor must sign up at the 2nd floor reception desk.
Tracy Inman, Co-Director, The Ailey School
Email or call x9515
Advisement Group: Scholarship Program
Melanie Person, Co-Director, The Ailey School
Director, Ailey/Fordham BFA
Email or call x9516
Advisement Group: BFA Program Freshman
Ana Marie Forsythe
Email or call x9512
Advisement Group: BFA Program Seniors
Adrienne Hurd
Email
Advisement Group: BFA Program Sophomores
Lakey Evans-Peña
Email or call x9520
Advisement Group: BFA Program Juniors
Freddie Moore
Email or call x9145
Advisement Group: Certificate Program
Kevin Predmore
Email or call x9129
Advisement Group: International Independent Study Program
Guillermo Asca
Email or call x9126
Advisement Group: U.S. Independent Study Program
Faculty & Musicians
The Ailey School has a faculty of working dance professionals from around the globe, many of whom are members, former members, and artistic directors of renowned dance companies. In addition to teaching at The Ailey School, faculty members teach at American colleges, universities, and conservatories such as Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY Purchase, The School of the Boston Ballet, the Julliard School and Long Island University, as well as at esteemed institutions abroad. Classes are accompanied by our staff of professional musicians at the top of their field.
Department Chairpersons
Melanie Person, Ballet Department, Chair
Lynn Glauber-Mandel, Ballet Department, Co-Chair
Ana Marie Forsythe, Horton Department, Chair
Jacqulyn Buglisi, Graham-based Modern Department, Chair
Hollie Wright, Jazz Department, Chair
Joan Peters, Dunham Department, Chair
Faculty
Anatomy & Kinesiology (BFA Program)
Tracye Rawls-Martin
Ballet
Ronald K. Alexander
Janet Atallah
Michela Boschetto
Jenny Chiang
Maurice Brandon Curry
Jessica Danser
Franco DeVita
Carolyn Eaton
Carmela Gallace
Lynn Glauber-Mandel
Dawn Hillen
Graciela Lebow Kozak
Anna Lederfeind
Caridad Martinez
Francoise Pender
Juan Carlos Penuela
Melanie Person
Cassandra Phifer
Rhea Roderick
Pedro Ruiz
Flavio Salazar
Ballroom – (Actor's Studio)
Danielle Quisenberry
Body Conditioning
Sarita Allen
Wendy Amos
Leslie Journet
Bounding Boys
Nicole Kadar
Character
Vladimir Dvorovenko
Composition
Elizabeth Keen
Amber Sloan
Contemporary
Brice Mousset
Janice Rosario
Dance History
Renee Robinson
Duncan
Lori Bellilove
Dunham
Jessica St. Vil
First Steps
Kristin Dexnis-Rosengrant
Kelly L. Hayes
Jessica Lynch
Dawn-Marie Tricarico
Graham-based Modern
Marianne Bachmann
Jacqulyn Buglisi
PeiJu Chien-Pott
Christine Dakin
Penny Frank
Kathryn MacLellan
Kevin L Predmore
Ben Schultz
Blakeley White-McGuire
Gyrokinesis
Elizabeth Brandt
Hip Hop
Keith Alexander
Jonathan Lee
Horton
Guillermo A. Asca
Tiffany Barnes
Shay Bland
Lakey Evans-Peña
Ana Marie Forsythe
Adrienne Hurd
Tracy Inman
Jolei Maffei
Freddie Moore
Fredrick Earl Mosley
Elizabeth Roxas
Bradley Shelver
Greg Sinacori
Astrid Von Ussar
Improvisation
Brice Mousset
Janice Rosario
Jazz
Jeffrey Bynum
Beatrice Capote
Chris Jackson
Christian Von Howard
Hollie Wright
Limon
Becky Brown
Kristen Foote
Music
David Finkelstein
Musical Theater
Judine Somerville
Senior Seminar (BFA Program)
Ellen Graff
Spanish Dance
Judith M. Shapiro
Tap
Victor J. DiMonda
Kimberly Ann LaRue
Courtney Tilford
West African
Maguette Camara
Vado Diomande
Imani Faye
Yah'Ya Kamate
Andrea Markus
Dina Wright-Joseph
Yoga
Leslie F. Journet
Musicians
Guitarist
Jack Morer
Percussionists
Paula Jeanine Bennett
Carlos Francis
Euphaise Gohoun
Matthew Hill
Mark Katsaounis
Shaun Kelly
Adewole Love
Scott Morehouse
Ronnie Roc
Victor Y. See Yuen
Kevin Sport
Mangue Sylla
Michael Mustafa Ulmer
Pianists
William Catanzaro
Patrick Daughterty
David Finkelstein
Barbara Gayny
Nell Gourevitch
Barry Harwood
Andrew Ivan
Mijin Jung
Eugene Kaplan
Michael Kingon
Rich Klessig
Jim Kost
Robert Marbach
Mitch Marcus
Michael McFrederick
Andy Monroe
Bernard Schaller
Ronald Musicus
Patsy Oucher
Jonathan Rich
Lauren Shapiro
Leo Shih
Ireen Simon
Elena Tishina