A native of Sacramento, California, Kayah Alexandra Franklin was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association in 2008 as a National Scholar before attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she received her BFA in Theater Arts & Dance with a minor in Print Journalism. While at Howard, Kayah was selected to develop and showcase her choreographic work “3.60” under the tutelage of Camille A. Brown, providing a platform that lead to her choreographing the 2011 production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf, directed by LA Williams.