Who We are
A vibrant interdisciplinary community of scholars, students, and practitioners dedicated to understanding the moral challenges of our time and creating scholarly frameworks, policy, and practice to address them.
- Indigo Cook
Indigo Cook
Graduate Arts Fellow
Indigo Cook is a second-year student in the Duke dance program's MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, they work within the intersection of movement, music, and contemporary performance practices of experimental and avant-garde art. They relish any opportunity to listen deeply, move wildly, and remain ever in flux.
- Sadé M Jones
Sadé M Jones
Graduate Arts Fellow
Sadé M Jones is a movement alchemist. Her talent as a dancer, choreographer and theater maker paired with her expertise as a Trauma Informed Yoga Facilitator, social psychologist, griot and energy worker supports this. Her research and practice lives within the intersections and fringes of somatic, cultural discourse, performance and the healing arts. Her healing practice, SADEIZM Movement Alchemy provides artistic, mindful and culturally relevant ways for individuals and groups to embody innate wholeness and walk their path with it. Her award winning work has been featured at Women & Their Work, The Vortex, The Long Center, University of Louisville, Dixon Place, Collegium Of African Diasporic Dance. Sadé holds a graduate degree in Social Psychology and is a 2025 candidate for a Master’s of Fine Arts at Duke University where she will be studying Dance as Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis.
- Bren Vienrich-Felling
Bren Vienrich-Felling
Graduate Arts Fellow
Bren Vienrich-Felling (she/ her) is an artist and educator who explores documentary-driven stories within the mediums of cinematic expression, photography and printmaking. Her work has focused on themes related to human connections in nature, women’s issues and cultural identity. Born in Lima, Peru in 1987, Bren immigrated to the United States at a young age and grew up in North Carolina. Following her graduation from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received a BFA in Studio Art, she worked as a multimedia artist for fourteen years and led roles as designer, consultant and art director for a variety of clients. She has collaborated with others on projects that span animation, filmmaking, design and photography. She is a graduate student within the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program at Duke University.