Jes Raymond is a Musical Teaching Artist whose practice includes songwriting, performance, directing, and writing.

Over 19 years, she's built expertise in arts integration and community building across school settings, from early childhood through college, and has led workshops at music festivals nationwide.

Jes moves with a musical compass fixed on the compounding social benefits of rising musicianship and creative clarity. She turns a classroom into a communal studio where students learn that songs are a human thing, and they are the ones who make them. Through her own performing and songwriting artistry, she builds the playful, curious, brave, and empowering conditions that allow artmaking to happen.

Jes is a co-creator and midwife for the collaborative process. She names all participants as artists and makes sure they can see themselves in a final piece they're proud of, while letting the music and the making be the actual teacher.