As a tenured professor at Skyline College, Amber Steele leads the Dance Program at Skyline College, teaching Contemporary Modern, Jazz, Choreography, Pilates, Core Fitness and Yoga with a focus on technique for strength, longevity, and emotional expression. She has a passion for inspiring her students to break out of their shells and surpass their own expectations, and to see dance in a broader social context. Her lecture courses work to de-colonize dance history education by examining how richly black vernacular dance infuses American culture. She directs student-produced dance concerts that showcase many dance styles, and she mentors students to share their work as a form of community service and activism.Projects include working as the Choreographer, Artistic Director and Coordinator for the Skyline College Performing Arts Showcase, Spring Musicals and Annual Dance Shows, Faculty Advisor for the Yoga Club, and the Dance Honor Society Club, Academic Senate Senator and Professional Development Committee.As a featured dancer, Steele toured Germany and performed at the Cannes Film Festival in "TRIP - Remix Your Experience," a multimedia exhibition of film, live music, and art. Her nationally acclaimed dance-comedy troupe, the Living Dead Girlz, performed across the nation from the Knitting Factory in NYC to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and appeared in Season 5 of "America's Got Talent." She has performed at The Great Dickens Christmas Fair as a member of Le Cancan Bijou and as a dancer in the Fezziwig's Warehouse Cast.As the CEO of the Steele Dance Company, Steele provides artistic direction, storyline creation, rehearsal facilitation and choreographic services, as well as teaching the company's master classes. Steele has been teaching dance classes and private lessons since 1997. Recent projects have focused on remote dance and creating magic and connections to counter the isolation so many have experienced during the pandemic.Steele achieved a double baccalaureate at the University of California at Berkeley in Theater, Dance & Performance Studies (emphasis in Dance) and Comparative Literature (emphasis in English and French). In 2008, Steele completed her Master of Fine Arts in Choreography at Mills College. She received an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts from Monterey Peninsula College, where she began taking dance classes. She is registered with Yoga Alliance as an e-RYT500. Her written and concert theses focused on technology's impact on bodies and body image in a voyeuristic, commercialized modern culture.