2018 Songwriting Alumna
Cottage: Owl
BIO: JESSE PARIS SMITH is a writer, activist, musician, producer, and co-founder of Pathway to Paris. She has been composing, performing, recording, touring, and collaborating with other musicians and artists globally since 2004. Her main instrument is piano. She was born in Detroit, and spent her early childhood in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. She currently resides in NYC.
She is a graduate of the Sound and Music Institute, a professional training focused on integrative practices of therapeutic music and sound. She also studied Performance Wellness with the late Dr. Louise Montello and cannot imagine life without being forever changed by this transformative practice. She is also a certified Grief Coach and this is a topic very dear to her heart.