11th-grader Jami Firkins listens to Doomtree collective artist, Dessa as she speaks to 11th and 12th grade students at Taft High School on Friday, April 4, 2014. The hip-hop artist from Minneapolis taught two classes of Language Arts Students at the High School in Iowa City while her and her bandmates were in town to perform at Gabe's during the Mission Creek Festival.(Justin Torner/Freelance for the Gazette)