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Andrea Davey-Gislason

Agnes McConlogue Ferro (she/her) is a Board-certified Clinical Specialist in Physical Therapy with over 30 years of experience. She began her collaboration with National Dance Institute (NDI) in 1998, at the start of a first-of-its-kind adaptive and inclusive in-school program at PS 199 in New York City. This interprofessional collaboration continues, and along with Kay Gayner and Aileen Barry, she is the co-creator/director of NDI’s DREAM Project. The first week-long camp was held in 2014, and the ongoing, intentional expansion of DREAM has been in response to the input from the children and families who have participated over the past decade. Her clinical experience and the feedback from DREAM families led her to complete her Doctorate on the importance of holistic and meaningful inclusion. Recognizing that more needs to be done, Agnes created the “Inclusion Done Right! Annual Conference” held at Stony Brook University, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Health Professions. Agnes and Kay offer trainings nationwide through the NDI Collaborative on implementing inclusive dance programs that intend to explore and expand teaching artists’ ideas of what “inclusion” and “participation” are, and perhaps more importantly, what they can be.