Mrs. Tonya

Mrs. Tonya is a cum laude graduate of Columbia College with a B.F.A. degree in modern dance with an emphasis in performance and choreography. While at Columbia College, she was on the Dean's List all four years as well as the President's List her senior year. She was inducted in the Order of the Purple Seal (Scholastic Honor Society) as well as the Omicron Delta Kappa (National Honor Society). She was a member of the Columbia College Dance Company where she choreographed and performed in all dance concerts. She was also president of the Dance Majors' Club her senior year. She has performed at the American College Dance Festival and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. After completing college, she was the dance instructor for two middle schools in Richland County School District #1 in Columbia, SC. Mrs. Tonya has 18 years of intensive training in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical and gymnastics. She has won numerous dance competitions, gymnastics meets and pageants including being 2nd runner-up in the Miss Dance of South Carolina and being a contestant in the Miss SC Pageant. Mrs. Tonya is the former director of Laurinburg School of Dance Arts for 14 years. She has also taught in Raeford at the First Health Fitness Center and in Fayetteville at The Dance Connection. She is also the past owner of Elite Dance Academy in Laurinburg, NC. She has also taught ballet at Elite Dance of Durham and was the company ballet instructor at Energy Dance in Raleigh, NC.

She has also been a judge for regional dance competitions. She is a 2013 graduate of Ashford University where she obtained her Masters of Arts in Organizational Management specializing in Human Resource Management. She is currently a real estate agent at Windham Realty brokered by ERA Live Moore. Tonya is happily married to Leonard, and they are the proud parents of 3 children.