Lucy Wallace, MA, Founder and Program Director
Lucy has been dancing since she was five-years-old. In 2010, she bought a Boulder-based dance studio after receiving her master’s degree in Psychology. Her psychology background informs her therapeutic and cathartic teaching style that led to the birth of Dance To Be Free. She has brought DTBF to 25 prisons across the US since 2015.
Lucy has been invited to speak at several speaking engagements including Emerging Women and the first ever live streamed Tedx Talk at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women. Her work is spreading and catching on throughout the prison industrial complex.
Stacee McGovern, President
Stacee has been dancing for as long as she can remember. As the Board President of DTBF, she brings marketing & events experience and she is dedicated to the mission of healing through movement.
In her free time, Stacee is out dancing to live music, spending time with family & friends, and strolling with her dog, Louis. Come say hi to Stacee on Saturdays at The Avalon, she is usually checking folks in for dance class.
Dana Del Vecchio, Treasurer
Dana is a seasoned Program Manager from Massachusetts who has been working for education nonprofits for the past 8+ years in the US and Middle East. She has extensive experience in proposal writing and helped obtain large grants from US government and private US-based and international foundations. She holds a Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In her free time, she enjoys modern dancing, hiking and playing with her toddler. One of her interests is the impact therapeutic dance can have on trauma and she plans to learn from the Trauma Research Foundation in Massachusetts. She also speaks Arabic and occasionally travels to the Middle East for her day job.
Jacqueline Hardy, Board Member
Jacqueline is thrilled to join Dance to Be Free to share her passion for dance and the mission of healing
through movement. She believes dance unleashes the inner silent energy waiting to be expressed and
burst free. Jacqueline has been dancing all her life, from ballet classes at 8 years old, cheerleading
competitions, to modern dance in college, and then found the dance fitness community in Boulder. She
has 10+ years of non-profit organization and event management experience. You’ll see her sub-teaching
on occasion in class at The Avalon. When not on the dance floor, Jacqueline enjoys creating her own art
through painting and pottery and spending time with her daughter, friends, and family.
Katherine Shoulders, MS, Southern Regional Director, Facilitator
Katherine has been working with Dance To Be Free, since 2016. She brings her 30+ years in the health and fitness industry to support and inform Dance To Be Free’s programming. She has worked closely with the Arkansas Department of Corrections on wellness program design and implementation. Offering workshops at the Arkansas Department of Corrections training academy and at various facilities, she has experienced first hand the unique challenges and opportunities present in the world of corrections.
Misa Terral, Facilitator
Misa Terral joins the Dance To Be Free team as a Program Instructor. She is honored to carry the teaching torch with Lucy in taking DTBF to more women in prisons around the U.S.. Grateful for how dancing transformed and healed her own life, Misa became a certified SoulSweat™ instructor in 2015 after dancing with Lucy since 2012. After moving to Asheville, NC in 2018, Misa founded Soulpower Dance™, teaching and empowering individuals to reveal their most authentic selves by connecting body, heart and spirit through the healing power of dance. As a Certified Death Doula and a licensed Occupational Therapist, Misa brings compassion, presence, and experience working with groups, individuals and families through intense emotions and difficult life transitions. Her spirituality and connection to Earth medicine brings joy, aliveness, depth and potency to her teaching style.
Misa has led trainings in Tennessee, Mississippi and Virginia with incredible support from her Asheville family.
Heather Boyle, Advisory Board Member
Heather has been dancing since childhood and has served several different on non-profit boards in a variety of capacities, including event coordination, fundraising, marketing and publicity, membership, and grant writing. She is excited to share her wide ranging experience to further the mission of Dance to be Free as a modality for healing and transformation. As a writer/producer/ filmmaker her film projects have been shown at independent Art House cinemas throughout Colorado and the western U.S. She and her husband have also recently established a tour agency to take groups on walking adventures along the St Hildegard of Bingen Pilgrimage Trail in western Germany in the Rhineland. When not writing or dancing or making art, you can find her hiking in the foothills or enjoying time in the garden.
