Sandra Rivera is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and writer.  Her contemporary dances incorporate Latinx folkloric, social and flamenco forms.  Drawing on experience as a founding member of Ballet Hispanico and her training from The Tina Ramirez School of Spanish Dance, she wrote Spanish Dance in New York City’s Puerto Rican Community for the publication Dance Index. The essay is a basis for a lecture and workshop series presented in such venues as the Ballet Hispanico School of Dance, Hunter College Dance Department, Latinx Dance Educators Alliance, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and the National Dance Education Organization. Among her flamenco inspired pieces is Pasodoble which was featured in Kiri Avelar’s Descubrimiento: Voice, Place, Identity.  She has been an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC where she served as director of the Omega Dance Company.  At the Cathedral she produced a series of dance concerts for the Holy Week seasons, including Saeta, a full-length flamenco-based piece for nine women, and Los Seises, an adaptation of a 13th century Spanish liturgical dance.  The autobiographical Barrio Girl, A Life Through Dance has been performed throughout the United States including The Abrons Arts Center.  She has been a teaching artist for numerous institutions including El Mueso del Barrio, the Abrons Arts Center and Ballet Hispanico for which she provided foundational content for their educational program, Primeros Pasos. She was a member of Dances For A Variable Population, performing and choreographing in six productions of their Revival series. Through their auspices she was awarded the Creatives Rebuild NY Artist Employment Grant.  Her most recent work includes the choreo-sermon, First Wave, A First Hand Account of the Early Period of COVID-19 performed at The Riverside Church, the site-specific piece Anacaona In The Heights for the Uptown Collective at Fort Washington Park and participating in Clark Center NYC Horse’s Mouth honoring Charles Moore. She is a recipient of the 2022 NDEO Lifetime Achievement Award. She graduated from CUNY’s Baccalaureate for Unique & Interdisciplinary Studies with a BA concentrated on Dance in the Latino Diaspora.