Jessie Laurita-Spanglet

Jessie Laurita-Spanglet is a dance artist, educator, and arts administrator based in Brunswick, Maine. Jessie’s work at the intersection of movement and health has led to her current role as Intervention Coordinator on a cross-disciplinary dance and neuroscience research team at Wake Forest University. In addition to her work at Wake Forest, Jessie has taught courses on the topic of Dance and Health at Colby College and the University of Southern Maine, where she is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Theater. Jessie holds an MFA in dance from the University of Maryland, and a BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Jessie was a 2024 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow: New England, and used her Fellowship to work towards an arts-based social prescribing program for Maine communities.