Amanda Rose Villarreal is a teaching artist, director, and activist currently who earned her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from CU Boulder. She is deeply interested in the intersection of theatre, communication, and social justice. Her scholarship and her artistry focus on utilizing narrative and performance to interrupt institutional responses to systemic behavior. She investigates the shifts in cultural and individual behavior that occur when an institution’s language and dominant narratives are changed. Amanda Rose currently leads Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) workshops for police officers, teaching communication and de-escalation techniques through performance and the use of interactive narrative construction. Simultaneously, she is an intimacy choreographer working with Theatrical Intimacy Education to change communication practices in the theatre industry; co-founder of the Colorado Artists’ Safety Alliance; and Managing Co-Editor of the peer reviewed publication PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research.