Dr. Katrina Brown-Aliffi

Dr. Katrina Brown-Aliffi (MS, MA, EdD) is a dance educator at Harlem High School and has been teaching within the Democracy Prep Public Schools network since 2017.

Brown-Aliffi is also a recent 2024 graduate of the Dance Education doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include:

  • arts and dance education in charter schools
  • context-specific pedagogical practices
  • professional development for arts educators
  • equitable access to high-quality arts programming in public schools and across school sectors
Brown-Aliffi earned a BA in Human Development and Family Studies from Samford University in 2013, an MS in General and Special Education from Touro College in 2014, and an MA in Dance Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 2019. She is now an adjunct professor for the MA in Dance Education program at UNCG.