Carey McKinley has taught dance, movement, performing arts, Pilates, as well as stints in videography, acting and visual art for 25 years at Boston area schools and universities: The Winsor School, The Cambridge School of Weston, Tufts University, Boston University, Babson College, Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company, Endicott College, Movement Arts Gloucester Mass, Project Poetry Live!, Liza Indiciani School of Dance, Franklin School for the Performing Arts, Academy of Dance Expression, New Arts Center, and with regional elementary schools through Snappy Dance Theater, Peanut Butter & Jelly Dance Company, and Mass Movement. She first taught dance as a high school student herself with a local community arts center in North Charleston, SC.