Dallas raised and Boston based, Jessi Stegall is a dance artist and applied ethicist working at the intersection of art & health. She trained as an actor at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Repertory Company Theatre, and Emerson College. She began her dance career in 2019 when she met Ilya Vidrin, whose work in partnering sparked her passion for choreographic research. She has been an artist in residence at the Harvard ArtLab, National Parks Service, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Her first choreographic work, Salty Dog, premiered at Motion State Dance Film Festival in 2020, and she was recently featured in Dance Magazine's 2020 "25 to Watch" list. Jessi is also a graduate student at Harvard University studying bioethics and holds a B.S. in Expressive Art Therapy from Lesley University.