Dessa, or as she has previously been known Dessa Darling, is a rapper and spoken word poet known as one member of the hip hop collective Doomtree. She is also known as a founding member of the primarily female a cappella group The Boy Sopranos. After graduating high school in 1999, she went on to earn a degree in philosophy from the University of Minnesota. She then worked for some time as a technical writer for a medical manufacturing company.
