Kai Hazelwood (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, event producer, and public speaker raising the profile of bi+/queer and BIPOC community issues through art projects, community events, and public speaking. She has appeared in BuzzFeed videos and speaks at community events, high schools and colleges about bi+ and BIPOC community issues.

Kai is co-founder and a lead facilitator of Practice Progress, a consultancy addressing structural, professional, and interpersonal white supremacy through body based learning that serves non and for profit businesses, educational institutions, and individuals. She is currently a lecturer in the dance department at Chapman University teaching Modern technique through an anti-racist framework. Kai is also the founder and artistic director of Good Trouble Makers, a practice driven arts collaborative celebrating plural-sexual/bi+ identities and centering BIPOC. Good Trouble Makers are dedicated to making. Making art, making room, making change, making good trouble.

I believe the body is simultaneously the oldest and most cutting-edge research site and my research centers around a key assertion: That the way to an equitable future will be led by dancers and body based artists. We have the embodied knowledge built over a lifetime of practice, to know that while we may not feel change from one day to the next, continued practice is the only way to see the desired changes we want in our bodies, and in our world. More specifically my research is led by my embodied identity as a queer Black woman who grew up in white spaces. Finding, understanding, and purging how white supremacy lives in the body is my personal mission; I’m curious about how the practice I build can illuminate the impact white supremacy has had on my body, myself, and racialized ideals in dance.