B. Berryhill | P. England | S. Foster | K. Kessler | A. King | J. Lewis | A. Mader | J. Massey | S. Massey | C. Pallant | F. Walker | F. Wessells
Adjunct Faculty
Julinda Lewis is director of the Ayinde2 Children and Ayinde2 Youth Dance Ministries and co-founder and co-director of the Ayinde (adult) Dance Ministry at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. Julinda was also a founding director of the Spiritual Walking Liturgical Dancers (now called Temples of Praise) at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up and studied dance with George Faison, Fred Benjamin, Eleo Pomare, Maurice Hines, and Pepsi Bethel and at the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Clark Center for the Performing Arts.
Julinda holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Dance and Dance Education from New York University’s School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions (SEHNAP), and has been a dance writer and critic for more than 25 years. She is the author of a young adult biography, Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance, and editor of Black Choreographers Moving Towards the 21st Century, which has been used as a textbook in dance programs throughout the U.S.
Julinda has introduced young people to dance through classes at the Police Athletic League, the New York City Public School system, and various church and community groups. Since moving to Richmond, she has focused on dance ministry, and offers workshops to church and community groups in Central Virginia.
Julinda is enrolled in the PhD in Education program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her dissertation examines the needs and perspectives of gifted performing arts students.
Julinda is also currently a SPACE teacher with the Richmond Public Schools Programs for Gifted, the Dance Reviewer for The Richmond-Times-Dispatch, an Adjunct Instructor for the School of Education and the School of the Arts Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a part-time barista at Starbucks. In her "free time," Julinda is a Girl Scout leader for Daisy Troop 3129 and Brownie Troop 661, and reads mystery stories and trashy novels by black authors. Her most daring accomplishments to date have been acquiring her motorcycle license and completing a 12-mile rafting trip in Northeastern Oklahoma.