Lorena Cervantes has been the Dance Integration teacher at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences for over a decade. She is also a national workshop leader for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a professional dancer.

Lorena was born and raised in Costa Rica where she began her professional career as a dancer. She was a professor of dance at the National University of Costa Rica, and the director of the National Dance Company. She moved to the Washington, D.C. area in the 1980s and received her MFA in dance from George Washington University.

For more than fifteen years Lorena was a Master Artist for the Wolf Trap Institute Early Learning through the Arts program where she led residencies and professional development workshops throughout the United States as well as other countries.

Ms. Cervantes was the 2017 recipient of the Hispanic Teacher of the Year award and the 2018 recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation for Fairfax County Public Schools.