Adams participated in three consecutive summer intensives with American Ballet Theatre, training under Brian Reeder and Franco de Vita, where she twice received the Catherine Zeta Jones Scholarship.

At the age of fourteen, Adams was selected to study at The Princess Grace Academy of Classical Dance in Monte Carlo under Roland Vogel and Luca Masala.

[6] In 2011, she was selected to participate in the U.S. State Department Sponsored NSLI-Y Russian language and Bolshoi Ballet Academy summer program.

[8] While a student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Adams faced discrimination due to her race including being left out of performances, being prevented from taking part in auditions, and being told to "try and rub the black off.

She has also danced the Chosen One in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Stepsister Edwina in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella and a lead sylph in La Sylphide.