Paloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer, writer, and arts leader, and the co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse. For nearly two decades, Paloma has created performance works that center communities of color, blending a choreographer’s craft, a journalist’s urgency, and a community organizer’s vision.

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Through Angela’s Pulse, she has developed two signature programs: Dancing While Black, a platform for community-building and visibility among Black dance artists, and Building a Better Fishtrap, an iterative performance project rooted in her family’s vanishing fishing tradition and questions of heritage, resilience, and belonging.

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Paloma’s honors include the Herb Alpert Award (2025), Soros Arts Fellowship (2020), and NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award (2017), among others. She has performed at the Venice Biennale, the United Nations, State Department tours to South America and Turkey, and the World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal.

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Earlier in her career, Paloma was a member of the internationally acclaimed Urban Bush Women dance company, originating several roles. She is also an ongoing collaborator with choreographer and author Liz Lerman. Before her dance career, she was a journalist, becoming the youngest reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. She earned a BS in Journalism from Florida A&M University and an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Case Western Reserve University.