ANA IN ACTION
ANA MASACOTE
is an award-winning Afro-Latin dance specialist and arts leader who passionately believes that through dance, we can facilitate social change within communities. She has spread the salsa bug to more than 30 countries across five continents as founder of Dance to Power, an online Afro-Latin dance academy, and former partner of internationally-renowned Masacote Entertainment. Through her social impact initiatives, Ana advocates for gender and LGBTQ inclusivity and racial equity in the arts.
“I was tearing throughout your talk because I'm always so moved by the way you speak to your students...how mindful and articulate you are with what and how you teach, and just blown away.”
- Jaime Koo-Kepka
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AWARDS
Ana Masacote was named a 2020/21 Kennedy Citizens Fellow, the 2019 YWCA Cambridge Woman of the Year, and one of the 2019 WBUR Artery 25, a curated list of 25 millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene. She has received the 2020 NEFA New England Dance Fund, the 2020 Next Steps for Boston Dance, The Boston Foundation’s 2019/2020 LAB Grant, the 2015 New England Salsa Music Award for lifetime achievement in dance and the 2014 SBA’s MA Minority-Owned Business of the Year Award. Ms. Masacote is an alumna of the 2015 Goldman Sachs 10KSB National Program and holds a Bachelor's in Management Science from MIT in Cambridge.
“I let my hips do the walking, but you are just now seeing me. I let my body do the talking, but you are just now hearing me.”
