Chelsie Hill: How a Wheelchair Dance Team Went Global

Okay, perfect.

So we're going to go in chronological order.

So we will go way back to the beginning.

But first, what is your name and what do you do?

My name is Chelsie Hill.

I am the CEO of Rolettes and I'm the founder of Rolettes Foundation.

Tell us about Rolettes and the Rolettes Foundation.

So Rolex is our wheelchair dance team.

We travel around the entire world performing dance, all different styles of dance, but also sharing our passion for dance and sharing what our story is.

So we all have been, you know, either diagnosed or injured in different ways.

And so we also like to talk about disability awareness.

With that is our Rolettes experience.

So it's our camp that we throw every summer.

It's basically started back in 2012 when I just found girls on social media and was like, do you want to come to my hometown and dance? And it just really started like that.

Just being able to be around other girls like me.

So our Rolex experience now, this version of it, is we have dance classes, panels, seminars.

We get the parents dancing.

We have spouse meetups.

We have parties at night.

But really, it's just to bring a bunch of women together who all have different types of disabilities in the same room to be able to network, build connections, build a sisterhood.

And it's really empowering.

The Rolettes experience helps me fit in more because a lot of other people here that are exactly like me.

No one stares at me.

I'm not judged at all, and I can just be my authentic self.

Because of the Rolettes experience, I have found my community and found self-love.