Our previous State of the Arts episodes revolved around our former band teachers. This time, we're interviewing a former classmate: Marissa Lewis! Marissa teaches choir at Wapakoneta City Schools in Ohio. She begins by telling us how she got to her current position. Then we ask how her experience as a teacher has been similar and different to when we were students (9:05 ). Hint: Covid made things a lot different. Marissa also shares about a time when her job and a lot of the arts programs in St. Marys were under threat (16:00 ), before giving us her version of the ideal music program (18:35 ). We wrap up with a funny story where Marissa wanted to impart wisdom, but instead put her foot in her mouth (26:15 ), and Joe asks Jameel a ChatGPT-generated trivia question.