Rosalind is a Social Dance Educator, Dance Master for Events, and an all-around Creative Generalist.

She grew up in Oregon, and loved adventures in the great outdoors, and in literature, and asked for tap dance lessons at the age of 4. She was a Theater Kid in high school and decided to attend the University of Washington’s School of Drama. There she performed, directed, and choreographed, and acted as Executive Director of the Undergraduate Theater Society, honing her creative eye and passion for bringing people together.

After graduation, she became Director of Operations for a prominent Seattle restaurant group while teaching wedding dance lessons on the side. Once the “unprecedented times” started rolling in, it was now and never, and she moved to Chicago to pursue a childhood dream of Professional Ballroom Dancing.

In 2022, she won Top Newcomer at the Arthur Murray World Dance-O-Rama and proceeded to travel across the country competing professionally. Along the way, she realized her greatest joy wasn’t competition—it was community parties.

All kinds of themes, music, games and dancing. All ages. All body types. All walks of life.

Now, Rosalind is building First Step Social to be an accessible, inclusive, community-centered space where anyone can learn to dance, can practice being seen and taking up space, and enjoy the special flavor of energy that is created when people are brave, silly, and unified together.

She also is a Fantasy nerd and loves designing and hosting historical, whimsical dream events for First Step Social.

Her “reach for the stars dream” besides leading FSS full-time, is to broadly re-popularize partner and group dancing as a means of mending the growing political divide in this country.

You can find her out in Chicago dancing to live swing and salsa music many nights a week, and partying with the LGBTQIA+ community. When she’s not dancing/teaching/hosting, she enjoys travel, dress up, and messing about in boats.