Rachel Slater Carter is an international award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose work is focused in film and dance. She is the co-Artistic Director of Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance, and splits her time between Portland, OR and New Orleans, LA. Rachel is a Mellon Fellow for Community-Engaged Scholarship and is currently pursuing her MFA in Interdisciplinary Dance at Tulane University. Rachel believes artmaking to be a radical, humanist act which can support and amplify communities and empathy.