Camille McPherson has been a force in San Diego’s arts and culture sector for over a decade. Now in her tenth season as a soloist with the San Diego Ballet, Ms. McPherson has originated numerous featured roles and has toured with the company throughout the United States. Known f...or her extreme flexibility and elongated lines, Ms. McPherson has danced as a featured guest artist with San Diego Dance Theater and has earned press features in the San Diego Union-Tribune, KPBS, KUSI, Jazz Blues News, the Chicago Tribune, the Billings Gazette, and the San Diego Reader, among others. An adept administrator, she also serves as San Diego Ballet’s Education Outreach Coordinator and Summer Intensive Administrative Director, successfully broadening the company’s outreach department to offer free and reduced programming to over one hundred classrooms in every city council district in San Diego. She both regularly guest teaches and serves as a ballet exam juror for San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, where she is an alumnus. In her spare time, Ms. McPherson volunteers as Co-Chair of Rising Arts Leaders San Diego’s (RALSD) Programming Committee and in the Development Department of Teatro San Diego. Notably, at RALSD she conceptualized and spearheaded community-building panel discussions addressing equity in the arts, particularly for emerging BIPOC arts leaders. Her work in the arts community is deeply influenced by her commitment to social justice causes including racial equity, feminism, and LGBTQ rights. Show more