In Naomi's freshman year when she was in an improvisational course at SRU, she had the honor of taking class from Ann Cooper Albright, and ever since that semester Naomi has been passionate about improvisation as a whole and specifically Contact Improvisation.

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In Spring of 2019 Naomi, alongside three other students, completed an independent study in Contact Improvisation with Professor Jennifer Keller. Through this course Naomi learned not only the fundamentals of contact improvisation, but also how to teach and facilitate it. Through the independent study she facilitated four jams which were assessed by Jennifer Keller, traveled to Oberlin College for a jam, and had weekly in-studio sessions with Jennifer Keller where her and her fellow students physicalized the concepts they were learning.

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Since then, she has continued facilitating improvisational jams for the dance department in conjunction with her fellow students. She has created promotional materials for these jams, and has begun documenting the basics of facilitation for future dance students who wish to lead their own jams.

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In her senior year, she is writing a research paper on "The Teaching of Contact Improvisation: The Art of Teaching the Unknown" which looks at the teaching fundamentals of the technique.