A Buffalo NY, native Megan Rakeepile has studied a wide range of dance styles and techniques for the past thirty-plus years. She specializes in two genres of dances, Afro Caribbean and Afro-fusion. They both share similar foundations influenced by the African diaspora and the survival of colonization, Megan began her dance training at Miss Barbara School of Dance, Buffalo City Ballet, and NYSSSA (NYS Summer School of the Arts) within the year of 1991-2008 where she then graduated with a dance degree from Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. After completing her schooling, she set her sights on training professionally in Toronto, ON, and entered the professional training program (PTP) at Ballet Creole from 2008-2010. Where she received her dance certification in modern, classical, traditional, and folkloric dance, she then received an opportunity to come back to the States and moved to Rochester NY to dance with Garth Fagan Dance Co. For a year, she trained and danced with the company as a professional member and adopted Fagan’s dance technique as one of her many core disciplines. After a year in Rochester NY, she then moved back home to Buffalo NY, and started many nonprofit arts programs in her community in 2012, to this present day she has worked with her past home church Grace UCC, Fruit Belt Coalition, Urban Christian Ministries, New Generation Ministries, Matt Urban Center, her current home church New Covenant UCC, and many more.

In the past 26 years Megan Rakeepile has established her own professional dance company MahataMmoho Collective Est 2015, and last year 2023 she was a recipient of the NYS Choreographers Initiative Grant a program of the NYS DanceForce where she was able to focus solely on her development as a choreographer. She continues to work as a freelancer for dance studios, schools, and arts programs like Studio J, Buffalo State University, Peace of the City, University at Buffalo, Shea’s Arts Engagement and Education, and so many more. Megan sees the value in sharing her passion and mission with her community, she feels that it is especially important to bring artists from diverse backgrounds and professions together and create works of unity and cultural exchange.