Yaa Faulk, originally a native of Raleigh, NC, began her dance education at the age of seven while living in Central New York. She began her formal dance training at The Washington School of Ballet at THEARC in 2011. Yaa is a past member of the TWSB Youth Ensemble and the Upper Level Advanced Training Program. Yaa began her teaching career as an assistant in the Pre-Ballet and Level One classes in the summer of 2016 and continued to do so throughout the school year. She assisted in this capacity for three years before joining the TWSB staff in the summer of 2019 as a Pre-Ballet 1 and 2 instructor for the Summer Dance Intensive. Yaa has completed teacher training in New York City and is certified in the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum in Pre-Primary-Level 3