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Dessa
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Singer, rapper, and writer Dessa has made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations—her résumé as a musician includes performances at Lollapalooza and Glastonbury, co-compositions for 100-voice choir, performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, and top-200 entries on the Billboard charts. She contributed to the #1 album
The Hamilton Mixtape and the RBG documentary; her track, “Congratulations,” has notched over 20 million streams. As a writer, she’s been published by
The New York Times and
National Geographic Traveler, broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio, and published a memoir-in-essays (
My Own Devices, 2018) in addition to two literary collections. As a speaker, Dessa has delivered keynote speeches and presentations on art, science, and entrepreneurship; guest lectures at universities and colleges across the US; and a
TED Talk about her science experiment on how to fall out of love. She’s also the host of
Deeply Human, a podcast created by the BBC and American Public Media. Dessa has been covered by
Pitchfork,
Forbes, and
The Wall Street Journal amongst others.
The LA Times says she “sounds like no one else.”
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