Shawn Womack (she/her) is a choreographer and dance professor at Colorado College. Prior to an academic career, Shawn founded the Ohio-based Shawn Womack Dance Projects, a contemporary performance company that performed throughout the United States and in the former Soviet Union. Her choreography was recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council and an Ohio Governor’s award in the performing arts. Her work has been produced in Russia and throughout the United States.  Recent choreographic explorations interlace narrative with ethnographic and historical research to delve into memory, place, and creating community and focus on live, site-based performance.