Motley is a Brooklyn-based Disabled choreographer, scholar, and teacher. She was a 2019-2021 Movement Research AIR, a Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellow and a 2018-2019 Fulbright US-UK Scholar. She has shared work at MR at Judson, CPR, Danspace Project’s DraftWork, Gibney Dance, Jacob’s Pillow, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The Whitney Museum among others. Motley co-conspires with Kayla Hamilton on Crip Movement Lab — a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability movement. She is an Associate Professor of Dance (Marymount Manhattan College, NYC) and a Ph.D. candidate at University of Roehampton (UK).