Jes is a dance-theatre-circus artist and community health worker mapping environmental, physiological, and ancestral imprints of stress. With a keen interest in psychobiology, medical anthropology, and traditional land-based healing their work interrogates how sociocultural determinants of health inform biological responses at sites of dysregulation, epigenetic inheritance, and adaptive resilience. Their project Openhaus Athletics was established in 2017 to address linkages between ecosystems and social systems, designing novel experiences uplifting recreation as community care. Coupling baseline assessments with expressive arts therapies – they approach public health and intangible cultural heritage through site-specific interventions across the globe. Employing a variety of critical frameworks, Deville’s events, installations, activations, and coaching services are supported by a Certificate of Integrative Health and Healing (UCSF), a Certificate of EcoTherapy (EarthBody Institute), and a Permaculture Design Certification (Occidental Arts & Ecology). Jes is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the American Circus Alliance. They are honored to support The Humanities Institute as a researcher of Counter-Colonial Ecologies. Fueling this work in wellness, live events, and entertainment, Jes holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Global & Community Health and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz.

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• public sensory installations

• small group coaching & dynamic bodywork

• science communication & participatory performances