Rachel S. Moore is a former member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet from 1984-1988, named executive director of American Ballet Theatre in April 2004. Prior to her appointment, she served as director of Boston Ballet’s Center for Dance Education (2001-04), North America’s largest professional ballet school. From 1998-2001, Moore served as executive director of Project STEP, a classical music school for students of color in Boston. Since 1994, she has held positions at leading dance and arts organizations including managing director of Ballet Theatre of Boston, director and coordinator of the Center for Community Development and the Arts at Americans for the Arts, and development officer for the National Cultural Alliance, both in Washington, DC. Moore also served as an arts administration fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts (1990). Moore holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors (1992); a Masters in Arts Administration from Columbia University (1994); and was a fellow at the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders in Arts at Stanford Business School. A native of Davis, California, Moore was named a White House Presidential Scholar in 1982 and has served on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Arts Council, and served as an advisor to the Diversity Committee at Boston Symphony Orchestra. During her performing career, Moore served as a member of ABT’s union committee and chair of the Dancers’ Emergency Fund.  She currently serves on the board of Dance/USA, the National Dance Foundation of Bermuda, and the Child Performers Advisory Board for the New York State Department of Labor. She is a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO, the Advisory Committee of Dance/NYC, and the Executive and Development Committees of Dance/USA.  Moore served as adjunct faculty in the dance department of Emerson College from 1998-2000 and taught non-profit finance in the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University (2000). She currently teaches in the Arts Administration program at Columbia University, where she was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College.  In 2006, Moore was inducted into the YWCA’s Academy of Women Leaders, and in 2008 Moore received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts.

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