Tag: womens history month

For the last Friday of Women's History Month, we're celebrating our very own history maker, Shihan Kellyn Laurinksi: the first female Shihan of Chamberlain Studios of Self-Defense. Kellyn was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1973. Early on she was involved in ballet in California, but spent most of her youth and well into college focused on music, never…

For the second week of Women’s History Month we’re celebrating Grand Master Cynthia Rothrock, one of the most well-known martial artists of all time. She is also known as the “Queen of Martial Arts,” and “Lady Dragon,” and she is the inspiration for the Mortal Kombat character Sonya Blade. Bored with dance and baseball, Rothrock got her start in Tang…