Jessica began her dance training at the age of four in her hometown of Timmins, Ontario. She attended Ryerson University Dance, and later, the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, graduating in 1999. Throughout the years, Jessica has had the pleasure to meet and study with notable tap dancers; the late Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Tre Dumas, Linda Sohl Ellison, Aaron Tolson, Dianne Walker, Lane Alexander, Jason Samuels Smith, Heather Cornell, and Anita Feldman to name a few. Jessica was a member of the National Tap Dance Company of Canada for five years, touring the works of Canadian tap pioneer, the late, William Orlowski. Jessica is a member of What's On? TAP! Dance Company under the artistic direction of Kim Chalovich. They have performed at various venues across Southern Ontario including the Living Arts Centre and the Fleck Dance Theatre. They were also invited to perform in Juba! An Evening of Percussive Dance, at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011 and again in 2017 with the remount of William Orlowski's Brandenburg Concerto. In 2016, Jessica landed the lead role of Mavis in the toe-tapping show, Stepping Out at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, sharing the stage with an amazing and diverse cast of actors and dancers. When not performing you can find Jessica teaching around the Greater Toronto Area. She is on faculty at The Tap Dance Centre, Center Stage School of Dance, and DeGazon Music Studios. In addition, Jessica teaches a Tap/Rhythm class to Pre-School and Kindergarten students throughout the school year. Jessica was on the dance faculty at the Randolph Academy from 2002 to 2010, and acted as Head of the Dance Department for one season. She was also a contributor to the success of the Academy's application for Private Career College acceptance by writing the curriculum for Tap. In addition, Jessica is an interim tap teacher at the Sheridan Institute of Technology in the Performing Arts Preparation Program. Jessica is a sought-after teacher and adjudicator throughout Southern Ontario, guest teaching for The Dance Project and adjudicating for Dance Masters of America. She has guest taught for the Canadian Dance Teachers Association and for the Performing Arts Educators of Canada. When not teaching or performing, Jessica is a frequent choreographer for Lock and Keynote Productions, led by founder and musical director, Shari Porter. In 2013 Jessica worked with L & K to choreograph the musical, Willy Wonka Jr., at Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. In March 2014, Jessica headed to Cochrane for L & K's March Break Glee Camp, choreographing for singing and dancing hopefuls. Jessica has choreographed a number of productions including Bye, Bye Birdie, The Sound of Music, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In May 2007, a proposal Jessica submitted to the selection committee of Dance Ontario's Creative Partnerships Program, was accepted; she was commissioned to mount an original 15 minute choreography. Collaborating with her husband and media artist, Richard, her first commissioned choreography was performed to two sold out audiences at the Fleck Dance Theatre in 2008. Jessica acted as Project Coordinator for Dance Ontario – an arts service organization. She helped coordinate, Connecting The Dots Halton; a forum for dance educators and studio owners to discuss the needs of Today's dance students. She completed a project in May 2011 called Dance From A Distance, funded by the Ontario Arts Council, allowing dance students from rural communities the chance to learn and create with professional artists from urban centres using internet-based video blogging. She has programmed two events for Dance Ontario’s DanceWeekend at the Fleck Dance Theatre, including a Tap Dance Series (2004) and a Latin Dance Series (2005). Also in 2005, Jessica programmed and performed in, Dance Ontario celebrates TAP: Mr. Bojangles and Friends; a one-night only Tap gala held at the Harbourfront Studio Theatre. She was Administrative Assistant to Mimi Beck at DanceWorks and The CanDance Network for 7 years, and has been heard on CIUT FM Radio promoting dance on the show, Evidance. In late 2013, Jessica finished an Arts Administration diploma program through ManageCulture.com, affiliated through the University of Waterloo specializing in fundraising for the arts. She is the former Chair of the Tap Committee for the Performing Arts Educators of Canada, a dance syllabus organization. She most recently collaborated with Kim Chalovich on the first edition of the new Tap Dance Centre Syllabus – an entire syllabus based exclusively on tap dance and musicality. Jessica is married to Richard Munter. They have two children: Jacob and Anna. She lives in Mississauga.