Rishauna Zumberg was born in Detroit and chose NYC as her home in 2000 where she embarked on a path promoting arts and social justice. Before arriving in NYC, she completed a Bachelor of Dance Arts at the University of Michigan, and then in the early 2000s, she completed a Masters in Social Work at Hunter College.

 

Rishauna has over 20 years of experience in youth development and has worked as a facilitator, consultant, counselor, retreat leader, and director with various nonprofit organizations in NYC.  As a movement artist, she has created participatory performances, processions, and improvisations, mostly in public spaces, and through support from AUNTS, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Movement Research, and Friends of Inwood Hill Park.  She was a participating artist with The Movement Party/Fleet Moves Dance Festival for five summer festivals. Rishauna has worked with an informal uptown collective called Collective States on various site-based projects and in curation. She has also choreographed for theater (Pop Up Theatrics & The Anthropologists) and danced with the Mariangela Lopez/Accidental Movement from 2009-2018.  She was privileged to manage the Solitary Gardens northeast tour in September 2018 which is a project created by artist, Jackie Sumell, bringing attention to solitary confinement and imagining a world without prisons. Rishauna also improvises regularly with jill sigman/thinkdance.