Jennifer Stahl is Dance Magazine's editor in chief. A former senior editor of Pointe, she has also written for The Atlantic, Runner's World and other publications. She holds a BFA in dance and journalism from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she danced work by such choreographers as Karole Armitage and David Dorfman. As a dancer, she's performed for California's Peninsula Ballet Theatre, Israeli choreographer Gali Hod and Cirque du Soleil's 25th-anniversary celebration. She has also served as a judge for the Capezio A.C.E. Awards, on the panel of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation and as an adjudicator for the American College Dance Association, and was an invited speaker at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference. She has been honored for her work championing diversity in dance by A.I.M. Contact her at: jstahl@dancemedia.com

Raymond discovered his earliest dance inspiration in print in the photographs of Barbara Morgan, specifically her collaborations with Martha Graham. As an art and creative director he has been recognized with numerous awards. Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and cofounder of the contemporary art gallery Curious Matter. Contact him at: rmingst@dancemedia.com

A native of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Madeline studied ballet at Southern Indiana School for the Arts and was later introduced to modern dance by Bill Evans. While completing her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College, she was cast in a historical reconstruction of Alwin Nikolais' Noumenon celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. As an avid dance videographer and editor, she has worked on video projects for Bates Dance Festival and the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company in Southern California. She later served as a marketing and education manager for Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. She is currently the managing editor of Dance Magazine and Pointe. Contact her at: mschrock@dancemedia.com

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Courtney danced with Lafayette Ballet Theatre before matriculating to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in dance. She has performed in works by Karole Armitage, Netta Yerushalmy, Septime Webre, Vita Osojnik, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Giada Ferrone and Fairul Zahid, among others. She continues to take class, create and perform in the city. Contact her at: cescoyne@dancemedia.com

Originally from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Lauren is a graduate of Barnard College with degrees in Dance and English. She has performed works by Annie B Parson, Mark Dendy, Reggie Wilson and Karla Wolfangle, and has danced with with e r a dance collective and TREES. While at Barnard/Columbia she choreographed and collaborated on several original musical theater works, among them the 120th Annual Varsity Show. She now serves as the chair of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. Lauren is also the content manager at Dance Media. Contact her at: lwingenroth@dancemedia.com

A native Floridian, Kelsey graduated cum laude from Florida State University with a BFA in Dance. While at FSU she had the pleasure of interning at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, where she assisted artists-in-residence such as Liz Lerman, Big Dance Theatre, Okwui Okpokwasili and Dayna Hanson. In 2014 she received the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award which provided funding for her documentary, and subsequent dance piece, "Two-Point Stance." This work has been presented at numerous symposiums and festivals, including a TEDx performance in Tallahassee, Fl. Her performance career includes dancing with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Jennifer Archibald (Arch Dance Company), and Alex Ketley (The Foundry) as well as assisting Choreographer/Filmmaker, Celia Rowlson-Hall. Kelsey currently resides in NYC where she continues to fuel her curiosity through dance and activism. Contact her at: kgrills@dancemedia.com

Wendy danced with the Trisha Brown Company in the 1970s and has performed with many other NYC choreographers. Her own group, the Wendy Perron Dance Company, appeared at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Joyce, Danspace Project and other venues in the U.S. and abroad from 1983 to 1997. The documentary film Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism profiles Perron along with seven other choreographers. She has taught at many colleges including Bennington and Princeton, has given lectures on dance across the country, and was associate director of Jacob's Pillow in the early '90s. In addition to serving as editor in chief of Dance Magazine from 2004 to 2013, she has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Ballet Review and Dance Europe. In 2011 she was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts' Hall of Fame and was honored by Dancewave in Brooklyn in 2014. She has been artistic adviser to the Fall for Dance Festival and often adjudicates for Youth America Grand Prix and the American College Dance Festival. Currently she teaches a graduate seminar at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and performs occasionally with Vicky Shick. Her book, Through the Eyes of a Dancer, is a selection of her essays, memoirs, and reviews spanning 40 years.