Before earning her doctorate from Northeastern University in 2014, she danced professionally for the Albany Berkshire Ballet as principal dancersand has performed extensively throughout the Northeast. Her most noted roles are the Sugar Plum, Dew Drop and Snow Queen in Madeline Cantarella Culpo’s The Nutcracker and as the Red Girl in Paula Weber’s Carmina Burana. Alicia has 20 years teaching and choreography experience with students age 7 to adults. She is currently a faculty member at North Reading School of Ballet and a former faculty member at Cantarella School of Dance and The Berkshire Dance Theater where has she taught ballet, pointe, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical. Alicia looks forward to returning to the faculty at the School of the Albany Berkshire Ballet this August.