Ms. Jessie

Jessie Carter is born and bred Dance Academy USA and is technically the very first student (baby) of the business starting in 1990.

She was a USC Song Girl, NFL Charger Girl, and NBA Clipper Girl. Among cheerleading circles at USC, she is affectionately referred to as, The Legend, for her participation on all three of those iconic teams. After retiring from the Chargers and Clippers, she was the demonstration-dancer for cheerleading tryouts in both organizations.

As an actress, her credits include Taylor’d Problems, The Crazy Ones, Movie Star Idol, Campus Security, Player and Wifey, Stuffed, and Kris. And she worked in a commercial with Paris Hilton and was also a Sports Reporter for USC.

As an instructor and director: she ran numerous camps for United Spirit Association; was the Director of a high school dance team in Los Angeles; was a certified instructor for yoga, spin and body sculpting; has been teaching at Dance Academy USA on-off for over fifteen years; and is currently on the Production Company Staff.

As her day job, she is currently one of the top EMC/Dell enterprise sales representatives in the country. Jessie has been a strong advocate for young woman to entire the technology industry, particularly in sales, and encouraging those young woman not to be intimidated. She took the initiate to film two videos on that topic. In parallel, she filmed a tutorial for EMC/Dell that has had over 15,000 views. Those messages can be seen here, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jessie+carter+technology+sales+woman.

Jessie’s heart and soul is with DAU, and the students and staff of DAU. She is excited to be joining the On-Demand Faculty and looks forward to connecting and positively impacting many young lives through our On-Demand classes.

Teaching dance to children is Jessie’s way of giving back.