Dancing with a Disability

Margarita Elizondo, AKA Maggie is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, founder of Rolling With Me, model, dancer, and writer. She was paralyzed in 2006 when an intruder broke into her home and shot her. She is a C-6/7 quadriplegic. She discovered dance as a form of physical and emotional therapy which has helped her regain range of motion in upper extremities and tought emotional expression through movement. She was a dancer before her injury and discovered wheelchair dance after her injury through San Diego Wheelchair Dancers Organization. In 2016 she learned lyrical dance through choreographer Tam Warner. Margarita now travels the country as an Abilities Expo Ambassador sharing her love for dance.