Katherine Dunham

Developed the Dunham Technique, a dance methodology synthesizing Caribbean and African dance forms with Western ballet and modern dance, still used in dance training today.

Earned a degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago and conducted formal fieldwork in Haiti and Jamaica on Caribbean dance and ritual traditions, applying the research directly to her choreography.

Sustained substantive work across professional dance performance, choreography, anthropological fieldwork and publication, and civil-rights activism across a seven-decade career.

Publicly refused to perform for segregated audiences and gave a speech condemning racial discrimination from the stage after learning a theater had denied entry to Black patrons -- at real professional and financial cost during the segregation era.

Directly confronting segregation from the stage at real professional cost is the basis for the profile's conflict_tolerance score. Conflict Tolerance

At age 82, undertook a 47-day hunger strike protesting US immigration policy toward Haitian refugees.

A sustained, physically demanding protest late in life over a specific policy is the basis for the profile's impact_motivation score. Impact Motivation