Blair

Combining her love for dermatology and dance, Blair created this nonprofit to empower dancers everywhere, especially those in overlooked regions, to feel confident, seen, and supported in their skin.

Blair's dance career began in vitro at age negative four months when her parents played classical music to her at nights. What started as a flutter in response to the music, became a kick, then a lifelong passion for dance. Professionally trained from age three, Blair has danced 3-5 hours a day for most of her life in a wide variety of dance genres at her home studio and with her song team. 

Born and raised in Long Beach, CA (AKA "The International City"), Blair has traveled extensively on six  continents (seventh scheduled in 2026) and is endlessly curious about other cultures and their relationships with dance. Blair has competed nationally, in team and solo capacities, in jazz, tap, lyrical, and ballet. Her dancing has taken her to many places and has served as a common link with her colleagues in multiple countries. Blair's journey is a testament that dance can break down cultural, societal, and identity barriers. Dance is humanity's common denominator.

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Blair founded Dance Aware Skincare after witnessing how dancers around the world, especially in underserved communities she visited, often struggle with skin conditions that go untreated and stigmatized. Specifically, her eyes were opened as a thirteen year old when she was on a street food tour in Ho Chi Minh City, she noticed recurring, untreated skin condition on several citizens she couldn't stop thinking about. She found this condition to be scabies which inspired her to spend over a year partnering with a medical student at Emory Medical School to research her first medical research paper "Scabies in Low Income Asian countries, specifically Vietnam; Full review: pathophysiology, prevalence, diagnosis, prevention, environment, and treatment outbreak." (Hudson, 2025). The paper is expected to be published in a medical journal soon.

Inspired by her research findings, Blair founded The Skin Dignity Project (www.skindignityproject.org), which is a community initiative raising respectful awareness of Vietnamese scabies and providing resources to those in Little Saigon (Westminster), CA, which is the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam and located just minutes from her home in Long Beach.  

From rural villages to bustling cities, Blair developed a newly heightened awareness of dancers battling untreated acne, rashes, and infections without access to proper care or education. These experiences deeply shaped her mission: to destigmatize skin conditions in the dance world and make skincare education accessible, inclusive, and culturally sensitive to all of the world's 50 million dancers. 

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Blair is a member of The Medical Club and is also a strategy/marketing team member of a dance-related tech startup company serving to grow the enterprise. She is working toward one day being a top dermatologist in the US while traveling to remote corners of the world to perform complementary skin surgeries to those in need (especially dancers) to give them new lives.