Staff
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nicole Williams highly regarded for her exceptional qualities of virtue and strength is the driving force behind Victory Music & Dance Company Inc. (VMDC), serving as its Founder and Chief Executive Officer. With a career spanning over 20 years, she has made significant contributions in Human Resources Management and Youth Services. Her educational journey is marked by numerous achievements, with the most recent being a Strategic Leadership Certification in Business Excellence from the Executive Education Program at Columbia Business School.
In addition to her professional prowess, Ms. Williams excels in delivering top-tier arts education and leadership services within her 26 high quality programs serving over 10,000 youth to date in Central Brooklyn. Her passion lies in creating programs tailored to youth in disadvantaged communities, aiming to enhance academic performance, instill self-confidence, and nurture leadership qualities through the transformative power of the arts, social-emotional learning, and civic engagement. These programs have been proven to provide youth with the skills, discipline, and training to get acceptance into gifted programs, performing arts schools and universities.
Ms. Williams envisions establishing Cultural Arts Leadership Centers in each borough of New York City serving as beacons of opportunity to youth of all ages. Her ultimate goal is to extend these centers globally, impacting youth in under-served communities worldwide.
Chief Financial Officer
Duncan Huie serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Victory Music & Dance Company Inc. Duncan holds over forty years of leadership and strategic oversight experience in the business management and finance field. He also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the following colleges and universities:
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Health Education, Adjunct Professor, Touro Graduate School of Business and Adjunct professor, Wagner College Graduate Business School. Duncan is the Associate Executive Director of NYCHHC South Brooklyn/Staten Island and holds Master Degrees in Business Management (Finance) and Master of Science (Community Health).
Artistic Director / Program Manager
Estena began her training at a very early age. As a teenager, she studied at the Joffrey Ballet School, Martha Gram and at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre School in NYC. She has experience in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, African, Creative Movement, Jazz, Pointe, and Theatre. She has gained over 25 years of professionally trained and dance experiences. Estena has collaborated in founding numerous dance ministries for churches in the New York area. In 2007, she started a dance company, Quiet Moves, with four dancers. Seven years later, there are over 250 dedicated Christian students and counting. Through Quiet Moves, she produced a Christian Ballet Production called The King’s Gate - the story of Esther through dance.
Senior Teaching Artist, American Sign Language (ASL)
Nanonte Dailey is a focused, highly driven, creative, American Sign Language Instructor. This passionate visionary has over 15 years working with the Department of Education as a certified teacher and has been working as a ASL,
Senior Teaching Artist with Victory Music & Dance Company Inc., for over five years. Ms. Dailey holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from Lincoln University and is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc
Senior Teaching Artist & Wellness Instructor
Anysia Kelly, a dancer and fitness enthusiast from Queens, NY, trained at Devore Dance Center and Inversions Theater Arts Center. She attended University of the Arts, dancing with Philadanco’s second company, D2, in 2012–2013. She later transferred to Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, earning a BFA in Dance and a minor in Entrepreneurship. Anysia worked with renowned choreographers during her time at Rutgers. Outside of dance, Anysia is a NASM certified personal trainer serving Queens and Long Island. She is currently a member of the COOP Company of collaborative artists and has recently started as a teaching artist at P.S. 13 and Victory Music and Dance under Nicole Williams’ direction.
Senior Teaching Artist
Jalisa Wallerston is a 23-year-old dancer and choreographer and is based in NYC. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began her dance training at the age of eleven with Devore Dance Center. She trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Modern, and African dance. Jalisa went on to attend Brooklyn High School of the Arts, where she studied dance for four years. While in high school, she performed in many major venues including with well-known dance companies such as Clifton Brown, Alexandra Fias, and Ronald K. Eno Moseley.
Teaching Artist Assistant
Cierra Karim is a teaching artist assistant at Victory Music & Dance and the coach of the Victory’s Academy Majorette Dance Team. Cierra is also an actress and was selected to perform for Viola Davis and the lead character in the Charisma’s Turn musical production at the Brooklyn Children’s Theater. She was a recipient of the BCT service award 2024 and recent graduate from Brooklyn High School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing a degree in Nursing from Borough of Manhattan Community College in the fall.
Comfort Dog
Chase is the Comfort Dog for the Victory Music & Dance Company, Arts Leadership Program at PS 273 Wortman School. Chase became a certified NYC Department of Education,” Comfort Dog” in 2018 and provides emotional support to a school of 300 students.
Chase enjoys coming to the aide of students with emotional needs and provides this support to over five students in his school on a daily basis. Chase is an invaluable member of the Victory Music & Dance residency program of 273 and will be featured in the Good Dog Foundation, calendar (2023).
