Natieka "Tika" Samuels is a member
of the class of 2009 from Washington, DC. She is planning on majoring in Sociology.
She fell in love with belly dancing after seeing a troupe perform in her junior year of high school,
and knew it was fate when a studio for Middle Eastern dance opened right across the street from her high school. She is super excited to finally
be in a belly dance troupe herself!