Honoring Hip-hop’s Roots: 100 Years of Black Social Dance

A native of Oakland, CA Traci Bartlow is an artist and entrepreneur with a longstanding career

as an activist, business owner, photographer, dance educator, lecturer, curator, and cultural

archivist.

Ms. Bartlow has the unique experience of developing cultural institutions in the Bay Area. As a

youth dancer at Citicenter Dance Theater at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Dr.

Halifu Osumare, and Leon Jackson, then became a faculty member and later served on the