Valerie Brown

Valerie began her dancing career when as a freshman in college at UC Santa Barbara she signed up for a racquetball class through the University. After discovering she had accidentally signed up for a Beginning Ballroom Dance class, she thought, "hmm.ballroom dance, that could be fun." And the rest was history. For the next two years she lived and breathed the world of Ballroom, but always felt like something was missing. It was one night at the Madonna Inn in SLO she saw through the mass of East Coast Ballroom dancers and spied a few Lindy hoppers in the corner. Fascinated, she watched them all evening and decided she desperately needed to learn the freedom of movement that is lindy hop.

Several years later she's back in Sacramento continuing to spread the lindy love through her work at Midtown Stomp. She enjoys working behind the scenes to make MTS run smoothly. She recently placed 2nd at the Swing in the Colony amateur J&J, as well as 1st at the first Midtown Stomp J&J and at the February Swing Central J&J. Always willing to chat with dancers about lindy hop opportunities, Valerie aims to bring back the joy to lindy hop.