Milerka Rodríguez, also known as “Mile” (ME-leh), is an ART-repreneur from New York. Music, movement, and writing are the expression tools she uses to find balance living as a Dominican-American woman in a complex world. She is on an ongoing spiritual, self-healing, and decolonization journey that informs her work and views on life. Dance has always been a passion for Milerka. Although she was unable to take lessons as a child, she found a natural movement listening to Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, and Black-American music in her household growing up, taught herself from online videos, and created her own choreographed pieces with friends. As an adult, she began taking classes in New York City in studios like BDC and Peridance and later joined New Beginnings Dance Company in New Rochelle, led by Kyra Johnson. There, she continued her training in ballet, modern, African, and Afro-Caribbean dance. Milerka is also a member of Les Ballet Afrik, led by the legendary Omari Wiles, fusing underground styles like Vogue with traditional African vocabulary and educating the masses about the Black and Latinx queer experience. Milerka has performed in places like The Joyce Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow, The Guggenheim Museum, Puerto Rico, and Riu Jamaica. As an educator, she teaches dance to all ages in NY public schools through companies such as ABT and Ballet Hispanico. She travels with gap year organizations like Pizarts, teaching in Costa Rica. As a choreographer, she produces original works with positive messages and a purpose-driven agenda. Milerka strives to move the spirit, inspire change, spread messages of love, enlighten minds, and show the world that it’s never too late!