
06/23/2025
This past year, Chance 2 Dance lost over $70,000 in DEI and arts funding. These cuts have a real impact – on our dancers, our programs, and the future of inclusive education.
But if you know C2D, you know this: we don’t give up. We grow stronger.
Miss Juanita, one of our incredible Florida instructors and a print digital journalism student at UCF, recently wrote a deeply personal essay about these funding cuts and the potential removal of special education services from the Department of Education. Her words are a powerful call to action:
💬 “Inclusion can’t be optional — not in our schools, not in our communities, not in our values.”
We’re so proud of Miss Juanita for using her voice to advocate for equity and inclusion. Let’s keep dancing. Let’s keep fighting. Let’s keep showing the world that everyBODY deserves a stage. 🩷🩵💛
Read her full piece now on HerCampus: https://www.hercampus.com/life/part-time-job-inclusion-joy-defunding-personal-essay/