Dr. Stephanie Sherman is a San Francisco-based queer, bilingual, interdisciplinary educator, choreographer, poet, and visual artist who has spent much of her career in Mexico and Ecuador with a passion for connecting transborder communities in the Américas through art and a commitment to social justice. She is a 2025-26 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grantee. She has a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Dance from NYU, a BA in Hispanic Studies from Vassar College and two Fulbright Awards for her choreography (Mexico, Postdoctoral, 2018; Ecuador, 2006). In 2007, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has taught various Dance, Art and Ethnic Studies courses as faculty at San José State University, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley, Mills College, the University of Texas El Paso, la Academia de la Danza Mexicana INBAL, and la Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Her bilingual poetry book, Tectonic Tongues/ Lenguas Tectónicas  was published by Black Lawrence Press (2024). She regularly tutors students in Spanish and creates breathtaking jewelry. She approaches everything she does with creativity, care, and love.