ALEXIA BUONO, PHD

Dr. Alexia Buono (she/ella) is an abolitionist scholar and practitioner of teacher education, somatic social justice, and critical dance/arts-based education. She is a full time faculty Lecturer at the University of Vermont on the unceded land, N'Dakinna, of the Western Abenaki people. She is a 2024 North Star Collective Faculty Fellow through the New England Board of Higher Education's reparative justice initiative. Alexia is a proud member of the Content & Scheduling Committee for the Latinx Dance Educators Alliance's first Convivencia, occurring April 12-14 2024 at James Madison University. Alexia works and learns collaboratively on liberatory, interdisciplinary projects and coalitions with educators, dancers, scholars, and communities around the world.