BRIA J. TYNER is a movement artist, choreographer and researcher from Fairfield, AL. She earned her BA in Dance from The University of Alabama. She is a former company member of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and recipient of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre Award and Lenny Williams Choreography Award. As an advocate for outreach, her work has been commissioned in public schools and studios in Colorado and Alabama. Her choreography has been featured in productions of Once on this Island, Little Shop of Horrors and Pipeline. She recently received her MFA in dance from The University of Alabama where her research examines the historical context of southern university dance programs, in aims of eliminating racial marginalization and imposter phenomenon in Black women in the field of dance. She is currently on the performing arts faculty at The Nightingale-Bamford school in New York.