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ALEXIA BUONO, PHD

Dr. Alexia Buono (she/ella/elle) is an abolitionist scholar, educator, somatic practitioner, and dancer. Through Black queer, Chicana/Latina, and abolitionist feminist frameworks, Alexia investigates the operation and disruption of carceral culture across personal, interpersonal, pedagogical, socio-cultural, and institutional landscapes. She studies liberatory pedagogies for young children and pre-service teachers, somatic movement literacy, decolonial curriculum development, and critical arts (re)integration while remaining an active professional dancer and site specific choreographer. ​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 Latinx Dance Educators Alliance, and works and learns collaboratively on liberatory, interdisciplinary projects and coalitions with educators, dancers, scholars, and communities around the world.

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