Donna Mejia is a choreographer, lecturer, teacher, administrator, and performer specializing in contemporary dance, traditions of the African Diaspora, and new fusion traditions in world electronica. She has worked as a faculty member at Colorado College and director of the Colorado College Extraordinary Dance Festival. For 12 years she served as managing director of the award-winning Harambee African Dance Ensemble of CU-Boulder. She continues to teach, choreography, and perform modern dance, improvisation, hip hop, jazz, Arabic tribal fusion and traditional dances of the African Diaspora for colleges, dance companies and dance festivals internationally. In 2005, Mejia’s choreographed piece “Summon the Kindred” received critical acclaim, was performed at the inaugural Colorado Dance Awards, and garnered a nomination for the Peak Area Performance and Artists Award (the PAPAA) in choreography.