Taraja Echols is a senior at Columbia College Chicago pursuing Dance with an emphasis in Hip-Hop Studies. She is a young and growing artist involved in the Chicago dance community and has collaborated on dance events including the ManiFresh Event and BSeries at Columbia College. Taraja toured with Chicago artist T.L. Williams, choreographed for Christian JaLon and has worked with T Star Verse, Lester Ray, & Kanye West in music videos, performances, concept visuals in the Chicagoland area. Alongside dance, Taraja is a modeling coach for "Picture Perfect" and appears in the movie North of the Ten, the TV show 61st Street and Paper Girls.