About: Hannah Schwadron and Ivanna Pengelley
Hannah Schwadron (MFA, PhD) is Associate Professor of Dance at Florida State University where she teaches dance history, improvisation, and the cultural politics of performance. Her writing and performance explore themes of Jewishness, dance, humor, migration, and decarceration, is published in Choreographic Practices, Shofar, PARtake, Liminalities, International Journal of Screendance, the Oxford Handbook on Dance and Politics, the Oxford Handbooks Online in Music, the Oxford Handbook on Jewishness and Dance, American Perspectives in Dance II, and Dancer Citizen among other places. She is cofounder of the Tallahassee Bail Fund which pays bail for people who cannot afford it and helps access needed services upon release. Ivanna Pengelley earned her Doctoral degree in Science Education at Florida State University, her Master's Degree in Agricultural Education at the University of Florida, and her Bachelor's degree in Educational Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Ivanna’s career has centered around supporting the education of marginalized youth, with a focus on those who have experienced the foster care system. Through this work, she studied and practiced the skill of empathetic communication, as a tool to facilitate understanding and connection. Ivanna is also actively engaged in developing intentional community centered around empathetic communication and sustainable designs.
