OUR TEAM

Kelli Forman

Executive Director

Kelli Forman is an international teaching artist and choreographer from the United States. After years of intensive training in the American Midwest, Kelli danced professionally in New York City and Los Angeles, working on shows such as X-Factor, Dancing With the Stars, America’s Got Talent, and Glee and modeling for companies such as Coca-Cola and Reebok. Kelli later completed her degree in Dance at the University of California Santa Barbara, advocated extensively for diversity in K-12 and collegiate dance education, and for six years held the position of National Director for Everybody Dance Now!, a dance non-profit organization that provided free dance to thousands of low-income youth each year across the United States. Kelli truly enjoys building community globally, traveling the world as a teaching artist and choreographer in Contemporary, Chicago Footwork, and Heels Dance. Kelli is member of Creation Global, an international Chicago Footwork crew. Kelli is also healer, Certified Massage Therapist, and Yoga & Meditation Instructor. Kelli is a co-founder of Chicago Footworkology, a project created in response to the global pandemic that provides online dance and music programming to educate students world-wide about Chicago Footwork culture. Kelli envisions and works towards an international network of artists who will be able to creatively develop a more healthy Earth.

Charles Parks

Creative Director

Charles Parks, aka King Charles, is a Chicago Footwork pioneer from the Southside of Chicago and a prominent international teaching artist for Chicago Footwork. He has been a global ambassador for the art form for over 20 years. King Charles is the founder and leader of Creation Global, an international Chicago Footwork dance crew with over 90 members worldwide. King Charles was the Artistic Director of renowned Chicago dance company, The FootworKINGZ, who was featured on major television shows including America's Got Talent and America's Best Dance Crew. King Charles has worked professionally with many iconic artists including touring with Madonna for years and performing with artists such as Elton John and Will I Am. King Charles continues to blow audiences away with his energy and creativity. His commercial work and stage performances include Omarian, Twista, Bakermat, Willow Smith, Verizon, and Nike- just to name a few. King Charles is also a mentor to many future leaders world-wide and a skilled rapper/MC. King Charles is a co-founder of Chicago Footworkology, a project created in response to the global pandemic that provides online dance and music programming to educate students world-wide about Chicago Footwork culture.

Kelly Ireland

Operations Manager

Kelly Ireland is from Slippery Rock, PA where she began her dance training at the age of 5. She attended high school at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School as a dance major and graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in dance and minor in hospitality. Kelly is a member of the dance troupe The Painted Ladies and performed as a New York Riptide Dancer for the National Lacrosse League for their 2021-2022 season. She is a swing for a new children’s dance show Woof Woof the Shadow Pup, touring locally Connecticut. Kelly is also an experienced choreographer, dance educator, and arts administrator. She is currently an outreach teaching artist for Steffi Nossen School of Dance and has been a guest instructor at studios across the country including Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nevada, and more. As a choreographer, her work has been presented at Florida State University, One Day Dance, and various regional and national dance competitions. Kelly is the former Content Marketing Manager for Ballet Hispánico and has recently joined the team of Everybody Dance Now! as their Operations Manager.

Kelsie Jeffords

Social Media Manager, National Program Manager

Kelsie Jeffords is a dancer and creative living in Los Angeles. When it comes to work, she’s always looking for ways to combine her passions, and Creative Netwerk provides that opportunity as she is able to utilize her love for developing a brand through creative strategy and social media, with her love for using dance to inspire others and build communities. With 6+ years of social media management, consulting, and brand development experience, Kelsie is eager to push the Creative Netwerk brand forward so that it can reach and inspire the widest audience possible. As a dancer herself, Kelsie has had the opportunity to tour around the world working with brands such as Kidz Bop, and America’s Got Talent, and has seen firsthand the impact dance has on all different kinds of communities, so she is grateful to continue being a part of that impact with Creative Netwerk.

Paris Davison

Santa Barbara Program Manager

Paris is a well known choreographer, instructor, creative director, and dancer in the 805. Paris has been in a number of professional dance/training opportunities with Samantha Caudle, Melissa Barlow, Eric Bellinger, Candice Craig, Hiphop Mindset, D Main and more. She has competed on Latin TV and Hiphop International making it to the semi finals. Paris is the founder and creator of The P$ Experience and P$ Academy. She offers classes for all ages in Hiphop and Jazz funk, and also specializes in Adult Heels classes.

Daniel “Chrybaby” Holloway

New York City Program Manager

Assistant Santa Barbara Program Manager

Dalia Santana was born and raised in beautiful Santa Barbara and started dancing with Alma De Mexico (A folklórico group). She did floklorico for 9 years and then joined her high schools dance program freshman year at Santa Barbara High School where she learned hiphop, jazz, ballet, and contemporary. She was also part of her high school’s dance team for her last 2 years of high school. Now she takes hip hop classes all around town and in LA, and teaches pop up hiphop classes in Santa Barbara as well.

Chrybaby Cozie is one of the founding fathers of the Hip Hop freestyle genre called Lite Feet. Being raised in Harlem in the late 80’s was a source of great influence for Chrybaby, as it was his foundation for dance, music and the source of inspiration to uplift the youth and communities around him today. Chrybaby has been teaching Lite Feet and Hip Hop for more than 15 years and is currently teaching at the Peridance Center and Mop Top Universal in NYC. Chrybaby has been cultivating and keeping the Lite Feet culture alive for ten years with the NYC youth. And through the culture, he has created a Hip Hop dance organization called ‘The Breakfast Club’ E.A.T (Earning All Together) in 2005. ‘The Breakfast Club’ is a platform for youth, to build upon their passion, talent and be given an opportunity to promote themselves in a positive light. After the creation of ‘The Breakfast Club’ Chrybaby created ‘The Lite Feet Nation’; a community connected by individuals who were there from the conception of the dance genre, to the youth who keep it alive today. Chrybaby’s extensive knowledge of Hip Hop and Lite Feet has led him to working with artists such as Chris Brown “Kiss Kiss”, Ron Browz “Pop Champagne” ft. Jim Jones and Jules Santana, and ASAP Ferg “Dope Walk.” His dedication and love for the culture has changed his life and inspired many others around him. He is a cultural leader for Lite Feet, teaching and battling across the globe, and working with national entities such as The Guggenheim, New York City Public Library, Jacobs Pillow, Works & Process, Hunter College, and many other universities and institutions to preserve the history and culture of Lite Feet dance and music.

Morgan Martin

Chicago Program Manager

Dalia Santa

Michael Davis, better known as Mike D Chicago, raised on the southside of Chicago, is a man of many gifts. For years he lived in these amazing gifts and talents on separate occasions but now he has been blessed to do them all together or in close proximity. Sing, dance, rap, instruct, mentor, produce, create and choreograph. Mike D is also a host and songwriter. His single “Claim It” and follow up single “Everybody Ain’t Inner Circle” has already become a favorite amongst many songs. Mike D Chicago’s music has been heard and used for inspiration all across the globe. As a dance performer, educator and choreographer Mike D has worked with big brands, organizations and stages such as Yale University, Apple, Nike, Timberland, Snipes, RedBull, Puma, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Sky Chance The Rapper, DLOW, Taylor Bennet, Kanye West just to name a few, as well as performed at Houston Live Stock and Rodeo, Rolling Loud, NBA All Star Game, Good Morning America and Lollapalooza. Mike D is still consistently inspiring across the city of Chicago. You can catch him every Thursday night teaching our Community Werks class at Healthy Hood Chicago. Community Werks is a donation based class, and focuses less on being perfect in the dance move you’ve been taught, and more on filling your cup up and doing something either new for you or something that you haven’t done in a while. It is a safe haven for the community and open to everyone that wants to be a part of the experience.

Michael Davis “Mike D Chicago”

Chicago Program Manager

Morgan Martin has taken on the role of so many things. She is a NASM Certified Group Instructor, Founder of Live and Believe Wellness, LLC, Executive Director of We Live And Believe, Owner of The LAB Transformation Center on the Southside of Chicago, Dancer, Motivational Speaker, and much more. But it is through her work in the field of fitness, dance, mindfulness, self-care, nutrition and motivational speaking that she was given the title “Transformation Specialist.” She graduated from the University of Illinois where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and was a member of the University of Illinois Varsity Cheerleading team. It was there that she began an interest in health and fitness. Through her online transformation programs, Journal Release workshops, and fitness classes, she has helped countless adults and teens transform their bodies, elevate their mindset and fall in love with themselves while empowering them to create a self-care routine. “It is my mission to help people transform mentally, physically and spiritually while helping them live a life they love and to believe that anything they see for themselves is possible. That is what “Live And Believe” is about.”-Morgan Martin