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Early Life
Paloma McGregor, originally from St. Croix in the Caribbean, is a Harlem based artist, choreographer, writer and organizer. At the age of eight she discovered her gift of dancing through a dance. (Formal training with Caribbean Dance Company in St. Croix ). At the age of eighteen she replaced dancing with writing, where she satisfied her deep desire to tell stories. She studied journalism at Florida A&M University, and focused on becoming a reporter. At the age of twenty-five, she applied to two competitive graduate dance programs, and did not get accepted, however at age twenty-seven, she was accepted to Case Western Reserve University to persue a MFA in dance. And at the age of thirty she moved to New York to become a professional dancer.

Urban Bush Women
After moving to New York to become a professional dancer she auditioned, and was accepted into “Urban Bush Women” In 2005, Dance Magazine stated that McGregor brought an "intense quality to the Urban Bush Women." She toured internationally for six years with Urban Bush Women and two years with Liz Lerman (Dance Exchange). In 2014-2016 she was a Movement Research artist-in-residence and an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellow.

Achievements
With her sister, Patricia McGregor, she co-founded Angela’s Pulse Performance Projects. In 2012 through Angela’s Pulse, she created Dancing While Black, an initiative that supports Black dance artists through process, production and dialogue. McGregor is exposing Black dancers and their culture  to society.

McGregor's latest work, Building a Better Fishtrap is a performance that symbolizes memories from her past. The dance is a reflection of what we leave behind through body movements. McGregor was inspired by her father’s stories. The dance was first performed in 2015 at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

McGregor is guest artistic director of Inspirit Dance Company, and she continues to perform in her own works and with Skeleton Architecture. .

Her choreographic work has been presented at Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, SolarOne Solar Powered Arts Festival, and the New Dance Group, as well as Dance Place in Washington, DC, MOCA Cleveland, and Cleveland Public Theatre.

She teaches dance and writing workshops throughout the United States.