She teaches several courses including Dance History, World Dance Forms, Creative Dance for Children, and Dance Improvisation. Additionally, she is participating in an interdisciplinary course examining design methodologies and the Creative Process. Leslie earned a Ph.D. in Dance at Temple University, and her dissertation, Body-Presence: Lived Experience of Choreography and Performance, is a phenomenological-hermeneutic study involving her work with two Philadelphia-based artists. Prior to her doctoral work, Leslie earned a Master of Education in Dance from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Columbia College in South Carolina. She is also the founding member of “Foursome”, a collaborative arts group currently producing work to be shown at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.