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Staff

Rosslyn Jacob Edwards, Executive Director, has played a significant role in the dance sector for almost 20 years serving as General Manager for DanceWorks, presenter of Toronto's longest running dance series, and with the U.S./Canada Performance Initiative and The Canadian Network of Dance Presenters/CanDance. The organization's presentation activities are a result of her outreach into communities across Ontario, as well as networking and collaborations with other dance service organizations. She is committed to providing activities for a broad range of the organization's membership and to bringing them together to strengthen the sector. Her programming decisions are developed and backed by a 16 member board, all of whom are dance professionals from various sectors across Ontario. Rosslyn moved to Canada following a liberal arts education and career in the public service and politics in the UK. She worked in the corporate, private and not-for-profit sectors. Since 1969, she has held management positions of increasing responsibility in the theatre, visual arts and dance sectors including the SAW Gallery and Ottawa School of Art (Ottawa), Inner City Angels where she programmed artists in schools across the GTA, and DanceWorks (Toronto). Jacob Edwards has also worked with the U.S./Canada Performance Initiative and The Canadian Network of Dance Presenters/CanDance and with consultants, HPFM Associates. She served on the board of COBA, the Collective Of Black Artists, as an advisor to arts councils and independent dance artists, and as a Dora Mavor Moore juror in 2006/07.

Jessica Westermann, Program & Administrative Assistant, is a graduate of the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, Jessica has made her living performing and teaching dance. Her forté is Tap, which led her to perform with the National Tap Dance Company of Canada for five years. She has since taught at the National Dance of Canada, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, The Dancers' Studio, Dance with Alana, Martha Hick's School of Dance, Innovative Rhythm Dance Studio, and MBS Performing Arts Industry. Jessica is currently on the dance faculty at Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts teaching Beginner, and Advanced Tap.