Jessi Rado (she/her)

Jessi is an artist, musician, growth counselor and community weaver.  Her creative work is often simple and accessible and spans across disciplines with a consistent focus on wholeness and healing.   She is a licensed psychotherapist in WA state.

As the child of both a family and culture with roots of addiction, Jessi has focused her own life on developing an understanding of how presence and relationship invite conditions for deeper healing. She often looks at how public spaces can become accessible and healing.

She has worked in close collaboration with artist Swoon, Philadelphia Mural Arts, Heliotrope Foundation and The Million Person Project.  Most of Jessi’s work culminates in public offerings that invite vulnerability and relationship, such as storytelling across carceral borders, free healing zines, community rest classes and co-organizing an accessible $5 conference with renowned addiction specialist, Dr. Gabor Mate (The Road Home, Philadelphia, 2018).

She co-hosts the vibrant community singing podcast Bliss is Ordinary which supports people in connecting to authentic voice and music as healing. She is a founding member of the song collective Earth Practice and plays solo under the name Ini. Jessi currently lives on unceded Lummi and Nooksack lands in the PNW. 

She is a board member for Unashay Home, an emergent grief sanctuary in NM, and a collaborator on the WAILS Songs for Grief album & gathering. She is the co-founder of Transition Bellingham, a community group supporting sustainable pathways to just climate action.

Her work and being has been deeply impacted by Jaya Ashmore and Open Dharma. She survives and thrives through silence, music, belly laughs and community.