Alexa Sand is a lifelong dance learner and enthusiast. She began studying ballet, character, and modern at the RAD-certificate granting Cornish College of the Arts Junior division under Gwenn Barker, Frank Bays, and Pat Hon. After college, she studied at Shawl Anderson and Berkeley Ballet in Berkeley California. After a hiatus of fifteen years, she returned to dance at Cache Valley School of Ballet's adult classes over a decade ago. Since then, she has taken classes with the Joffrey School New York, the Joffrey Ballet, Kat Wildish, Finis Jhung, Pasadena Conservatory of Dance, and the Place, London. For the last four years, she has attended the ArtEmotion Adult Intensive at the studios of Ballet West, led by Allison DeBona and Rex Tilton. A professor and research administrator at USU, Alexa holds a PhD from UC Berkeley. She enjoys, in addition to dancing, hiking, sailing, and reading.