Samantha Sacks is a classical ballet dancer, oral historian, and arts worker born and raised in Chicago. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University, where her ongoing research uses oral history to ask how the body expresses and transmits memory through dance. She has cultivated relationships with artists across New York, Cuba and Puerto Rico, collaborating on research, writing, and public programs with a range of arts institutions. She is the Researcher and Special Projects Coordinator at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Education Center and a company dancer with the New York Theatre Ballet.