Clara Douglas, a native of The Bronx, New York, is of Puerto Rican descent. Clara’s roots in teaching, promoting and organizing salsa events in Richmond, Virginia go back to 2006. Two years later, her successes led to the formal establishment of her company, salsa4life.com. Clara’s background in dancing salsa dates back to 1993 in the hot salsa venues of New York City. After graduating from Baruch College in NYC with a B.B.A in accounting, she relocated to Richmond in 1998.

In 2017, Clara and her husband Michael moved to Portland, Oregon. They continued to coordinate the activities of Salsa4Life in Portland and were active participants in the Portland salsa community. In 2021, we relocated to Raleigh, NC.