COMMUNITY - Jess is co-founder of Art Across the Academy at Germantown Academy. This program was built to create opportunities for students to connect with professional artists and to participate in large-scale collaborative installations. Resident artists range from the world-renowned, such as Isaiah Zagar and Sonya Clark, to local creatives and alumni such as Drew tye Ruby-Howe. Some favorite community events were: Poems in Trees, Dip nā Dance, Humanitas, Bloom Garden and Woods to Water.