Jai M. Williams is the Program Manager of UCLA’s Prison Education Program. She is a South Los Angeles native born in Inglewood, California. She is an alumna of UCLA’s Kaufman School of Dance and received her dual Masters in Dance Education and Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from New York University. She taught dance in New York City and Los Angeles for several years to grades K-8th. These styles included Ballet, African, Latin, Tap, Creative Movement, Hip Hop, and Jazz. While at UCLA, she taught movement workshops inside of juvenile halls. After graduating from UCLA, she worked for a non profit, Agency Arts, teaching dance, theater, and poetry to formerly incarcerated, system-impacted, and foster care youth. Jai is working with UCLA’s Art & Global Health Center on the Up to Us program, created in partnership with the Prison Education Program. She firmly believes that everyone should have access to dance.