Jesse Elliott is the founder and songwriter of two rock and roll bands, These United States and Ark Life, and a small business owner. He’s released 6 full-length albums and performed live over 1,200 times in the last decade, appearing everywhere from SXSW and Glastonbury to Lollapalooza and your favorite local dive. Before music recaptured his heart, Elliott wrote books, articles, and speeches with economist Richard Florida, worked in an international criminal tribunal in The Hague, helped shoot a documentary on water rights in southern Mexico and Guatemala, and ran an Italian deli on the Jersey Shore. He now resides in Denver, Colorado, where he works with the city on festival programming, the governor’s Council on Creative Industries on statewide music strategy, the Bohemian Foundation, and the Biennial of the Americas.