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Ana Masacote is an award-winning Afro-Latin dance specialist and arts leader who passionately believes that through dance, we can facilitate social change within communities. She has spread the salsa bug to more than 30 countries across five continents as founder of Dance to Power, an online Afro-Latin dance academy, and former partner of internationally-renowned Masacote Entertainment.

Through her social impact initiatives, Ana advocates for gender and LGBTQ inclusivity and racial equity in the arts. In 2017, she helped establish a scholarship initiative for Latinx MA artists as former executive director of Yo Soy LOLA, a movement to reclaim the Latina narrative through artistic platforms.

Ana was most recently named a 2020/21 Kennedy Citizens Fellow, the 2019 YWCA Cambridge Woman of the Year, and a 2019 WBUR Artery 25 honoree. She has received the 2020 NEFA New England Dance Fund, the 2020 Next Steps for Boston Dance, The Boston Foundation’s 2019/2020 Live Arts Boston Grant, the 2015 New England Salsa Music Award for lifetime achievement in dance and the 2014 SBA’s MA Minority-Owned Business of the Year Award.

Ana is an alumna of the 2015 Goldman Sachs 10KSB National Program and holds a Bachelor's in Management Science from MIT in Cambridge. She began her formal dance training with folkloric dance at age 5 and Salsa at age 15, and she has been a judge and guest of honor at salsa competitions and festivals worldwide.

In the Press

• Creative North Shore, 6/25/20: Masacote Shows Lynn as “Out and Proud” with Queer Lynn Scene

• The Harvard Crimson, 10/17/19: Yo Soy Lola Continues to Empower Latinx Artists

• Experience Magazine, 6/19/19: Dancing Away From Gender Roles

• WBUR, 3/25/19: Meet The ARTery 25 — Millennials Of Color Impacting Boston Arts And Culture

• WBUR, 11/10/18: 'Yo Soy Lola' Aims To Open The Door For Boston Area Latina Artists

• WBUR, 6/29/18: Remembering Ryles, A Storied Jazz Club That Lit Up Inman Square For 40 Years

• digboston, 6/5/18: Stepping Out: Pro Dancer Ana Masacote Opens Up About Being Bisexual in the Salsa Scene

• BostonVoyager, 5/1/18: Meet Ana Masacote of Masacote Entertainment in Cambridge

• WBUR, 3/22/18: Fearless Curls: For Some Latinas, Natural Hair Is A Statement Of Identity

• Vision Magazine, 11/1/17: This Latina movement has found its groove

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