As an educator, choreographer, and performer, Melissa Britt has demonstrated excellence in creativity through art projects and programming that bridge academia with community partners and serve as a catalyst for community inclusion and student leadership. 

She is beyond grateful to be working alongside such talented artists, educators, and administrators in an organization focused on youth development. Previously, she was a Professor of Dance at Arizona State University focusing on hip hop culture, performance, and movement instruction. She has worked with esteemed international artists and choreographed works on a local and national level. 

Melissa's stage work, direction, writing, dancing, teaching, and choreography have taken her from Beijing to New York, San Francisco to Princeton University, from Wisconsin to Florida. She is paying forward her experience and continues to work with many of her past students on a professional level within the organization. She is inspired daily by the artistic growth and innovation she observes in THE BE KIND CREW. One thing she has realized through her years of artistic practice is that there are multiple ways to understand and experience something. It's our job as socially engaged artists to show how multifaceted life and art can be.

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Melissa Britt has enjoyed studying movement her entire life. After acquiring her BFA in Dance Performance from Arizona State University in 2004. She has choreographed nationally and danced with Phoenix-based dance companies Nebellen, Conder Dance, WNBA Phoenix Mercury Hip Hop Squad, NBA Phoenix Suns Dance Team, and Phoenix Suns APS Solar Squad. Melissa was also a member of Universal Dance Association (UDA) and Texas-based company Marching Auxiliaries (MA). She also served and performed/choreographed and taught with EPIK Dance Co.

Melissa received her MFA in Dance in Spring of 2010. Where she served as Clinical Professor in ASU’s School of Dance and is responsible for developing the Urban curriculum, student international travel for urban dance studies and co-founder of the Urban Sol event. Presently operates as Vice President of Education practices for the BeKind project.