Imani Ma'at Taylor is a native from Norfolk, Virginia. She has had the blessed opportunity of being a leading cast member of “V2W” a dance company directed by Valerie Anderson-Winborne a former “Urban Bush Women” (UBW) original cast member. In Summer 2017 Imani was selected to study with the UBW in NYC for ‭The Generative Dancer summer intensive working closely with director ‬Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the current cast of UBW. Imani has attended Hampton University where she directed and choreographed for the praise dance ministry “Palms 149”. In 2014 Imani branched out into doing her own choreographic work where she started her own dance school “Imani Taylor's School of Dance” that partnered with local community venues including the Historical Attucks Theater & the Salvation Army Kroc Center. She has done many things for the youth in Hampton Roads and now the Inland Empire working with both disable and children at risk. Imani is currently a forth year and Gluck Fellow at the University of California Riverside pursuing her ambitions in dance studies. She’s also a company member of the “The Umoja Ensemble of the Inland Empire” under the direction of Makeda Kumasi.