Porshia A. Derival is the Executive Director of H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory. Growing up in Long Island, her journey in hip-hop dance started as a teenager at her local dance studio. Given the tremendous potential her dance instructor saw in her, she was single-handedly chosen out of her class to further her education and build her skill sets in leadership at H+, and has led the organization into the future of Dance Sustainability through a series of pro-bono services plus more. As a Haitian-Trinidadian woman, her mission is to secure a space within the art-form of Hip-Hop dance for black women to be unapologetically themselves. To move, live and love without fear, constraint or judgment from others.