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Jen Graham, M.F.A., C.M.A., R.S.M.E./T., is the director of the Master of Fine Arts Program and an assistant professor of dance. She is a multidisciplinary movement educator and artist grounded in somatic practice and process. She creates inclusive and exploratory spaces to instigate shifts in awareness, perspective, and pattern through embodied experiences. Using innovative and unconventional approaches, she promotes curiosity, investigation, and connection to manifest understanding and growth. 

Graham holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Maryland. She also holds her certification as a Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. 

She has worked in higher education in various roles since 2012, including creating and directing programs in embodied leadership and at the intersection of performing arts and health, and has taught in the private sector for over 25 years. She also founded, owned, and directed two private dance schools with their own associated performance spaces, where she worked with accomplished faculty, artists, and educators to build highly respected national standards-based dance programs.