Lucy Wallace, MA, Founder and Program Director
Lucy has been dancing since she was eight-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.
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.
Our Team
Stacee McGovern, Board President
Stacee is a seasoned marketer and an events professional. Marketing and crafting events in the food industry and dancing for life balance, heart happiness, and to connect with community. Her core purpose is to be the good, and to change what she can. Stacee moved to Boulder from St. Louis in 1995. She and her husband, Jeff, have 2 kids, and they enjoy music and travel.
Jennifer McLemore, Board Vice President
Jen is a Colorado native that has had the good fortune to call Boulder home since 1997. Her background is in Public Health; she went to Colorado State University and worked for the Boulder County Health Department before going back to school to get her Master of Science in Oriental Medicine. Jen has been practicing Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine in Boulder since 2004. In addition to her private practice, Jen founded the acupuncture program at CU Boulder's Wardenburg Student Health Center where she worked until 2018. At Jen's private practice, Dragonfly Acupuncture, Jen employs both Functional Medicine and Trauma Informed Acupuncture to augment and better address her patients' healing process.
In addition to acupuncture, Jen dances, as much as possible. She has experienced and witnessed the profound therapeutic effects of dance throughout her life and as such, she is deeply committed to supporting the dance community as a way to help serve the community. Jen has 3 kids, 3 cats, and a box turtle named Lucy. When not dancing, she loves to cook and be outside in the sun and nature.
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.
Sharlene Most, Advisory Board
Sharlene has worked for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services for 31 years as their Recreation Director. She has been the Recreational Coordinator for 30 years at the women’s prison in York and has seen how Dance to Be Free effects the lives of the women who allow the program to free them from incarceration and help them to overcome the trauma they have endured.
Outside of work she is involved in her church and loves to be outdoors.
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.
Tina Seher, Virtual Assistant
Tina is a co-owner of MiTi Tech Solutions, with her husband Michael. They offer virtual assistant services to non-profit, sole & small business entrepreneurs. Being in business for over 5 years has allowed Tina to gather much knowledge on what businesses need and how to help run things smoothly.
In her free time, you can find Tina sitting in her chair either gaming or crocheting. She also likes to check out new locations locally that offer karaoke and hopes to start a traveling vlog and take it nationally.
