User:Remolina69/Jessica 'Remo' Morales

Jessica Marie Morales aka Remo was born on December 28, 1978 at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. Her mother Hilda M.Ortiz, Dominican descent, and her stepfather Pedro R. Ortiz, Dominican descent raised her in a household with full of music and life. She was raised in the boogie down Bronx with 4 siblings: Daniel Ortiz, Chantale Vallejo, Aron Ortiz and Jennifer Ortiz.

In 1992 she entered Herbert H. Lehman High school where she played Junior varsity basketball and became a member of her Junior Varsity Cheerleading Squad. Her junior year she became captain of the Junior Varsity Cheerleading Squad where she was able to learn and enhance her creativity. The cheerleading squad was more of step team which allowed her the starting stages of creating beats to sounds. Her senior year she was chosen to be one of three captains for the Varsity Cheerleading Squad. This was not common as you must serve as Varsity Cheerleader before captain. Additionally her senior year Remo was voted as Senior Class President and nominated for Promo Queen.

In 1997, Remo attended the University at Albany where she pledged her sorority Omega Phi Beta. In the summer of 1999, the National Board of Directors approached Soror Jessica Morales about creating a step team that would help represent OPBSI at the first ever Latino Step Exhibition. After agreeing to take on this challenge, Remo began the process of reestablishing the step team and Omega Phi Beta’s first step performance since the founders show. This is where the love of stepping began to blossom and became more than a hobby but an obsession. The establishment of the National Step Team was created to be named Soul Steppin' Divas.

Throughout the years that follow Remo lead the Soul Steppin Divas through the following accomplishments literally dominating the Latino Step Market through her innovative creativity and belief in the Art of Stepping. In 2006, Remo decided to take her squad and begin entering National Step Competitions that were in the African American market in hopes to broaden her creativity and enlightened the community that the color of one's skin doesn't determine the color of the art form.

In 2006, Remo began her quest and entered the StepCorrect National Step Competition where along with the Soul Steppin Divas they won 1st on 2 Qualifiers rounds and then took 1st place at the National Competition. Although there was much struggle in the competition it helped open her eyes to what she loved to do. Her success in the stepping market lead to Remo filming an episode on the popular MTV network series “True Life”. The episode was titled “MTV True Life: I’m Stepping”. Ms. Morales was documented in the pursuit of leading an all Latino Step Team to prevail as the first winner in history to compete in an all African American Step Contest.

Additionally, Remo founded her company Remo Production, Inc. and the ArtofStepping.org, which operates nationally providing interactive and exclusive programs on the Art of Steppin’. Remo’s unique stepping programs have helped to enhance the quality, availability and sustainability of daily after-school programs in urban areas. Remo is the first organization in the nation to set about building a nationwide K-12 after-school stepping program.

Remo is dedicated to teaching the Art of Steppin' by providing a deeper understanding of it via our copyrighted program: Art of Steppin’ (Art of Stepping). Our uniquely copyrighted program has been implemented in various after-school partnerships and focuses on: Techniques 101 (Sounds vs. Counts) to Basic Body Formations. We elaborate and explain various positioning and teachings from the hearing impaired to the visually impaired. Furthermore, we have created a Mathematical Learning Process to ensuring that Beats are created with exact Precision.

Media and Highlights:
 * 2010 - Featured Blog on GlobalGrind.com on the Art of Stepping
 * 2010 - Trademarked the Art of Stepping: Dedicated to Promoting, Educating and Enhancing the Art of Stepping]
 * 2010 - Copyrighted the Manual: Art of Steppin'(Art of Stepping)
 * 2010 - Featured on Tyra Banks Show
 * 2010 - Featured on LatiNation TV on a special Segment " Latino's Making a Difference" presented by State Farm Insurance
 * 2009 - Established Remo Junior Step Team
 * 2009 - Launched R.I.S.C. (Remo Inc. Step Championship) formerly known as Latinosstep Championship
 * 2009 - Established a Unity Step Team and Unity Stroll Team to help unite Greeks and non Greeks for the love of these art forms
 * 2009 - Created Step/Stroll Coalition to help unite all Greek Letters of organization for the advancement of the art of stepping/strolling
 * 2008 - Latinosstep Step National Competition - 2nd Place
 * 2007 - StepCorrect National Step Competition - 1st Place
 * 2007 - Inducted into the Latino Step Hall of Fame
 * 2007 - Featured in Sony/BMG Artist Chelo's "Un Corazon" Video
 * 2007 - Live Performance on MTV Mi TRL with Sony/BMG Artist Chelo
 * 2007 - People en Espanol "Fiesta en al Park" Event
 * 2006 - Live Performance on MTV'S TRL for Beyonce Knowles B-Day Album
 * 2006 - Featured in MTV True Life - I'm Stepping
 * 2006 - StepCorrect Qualifier at Rutgers University - 1st place
 * 2005 - Latinosstep Step National Competition - 1st Place
 * 2004 - Latinosstep Step National Competition - 1st Place
 * 2003 - Latinosstep Step Competition Qualifier - 1st Place
 * 2002 - Feature on the cover of Latino University Magazine