Rosie Richard (She/He/They) is a young Queer artist and aspiring dance teacher from Surrey B.C. The heart of Rosie’s passion lies in street dance, with the focus of her training being in Hip Hop and Waacking. While these two styles are her main interests, she has committed herself to learning and exploring various other street dance styles including Popping, Locking, Breaking, and House; she hopes to continue using these different styles as tools to express herself and share her lived experiences. While dance has been part of their life from a young age, their current journey started in high school, which is when her dance trajectory shifted from choreography focus to freestyle focus, and eventually guided her to becoming a dance teacher. She was only able to discover her current path because she had the privilege of being able to take classes and join training programs. Because of this, Rosie hopes to use his experience to provide more accessible training to youth, especially within the Surrey in school dance community. She is currently volunteering at Sullivan Heights Secondary to coach their Senior Hip Hop Team, and she plans to teach workshops at different Surrey Secondary Schools throughout the year. Rosie hopes that their work will speak to other young queer dancers and inspire them to find dance as an outlet of release and community, as it has been for them.