Meet Your Different Dynamics Team

Jessica Ingraham

Founder & Executive Director

Founder of Different Dynamics, Jessica has proudly served the music education community for more than eighteen years. Currently serving as Director of Education for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Jessica began her career in music education teaching in the St. Charles City Schools in St. Charles, MO. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Miami University in Oxford, OH, a master’s degree in music education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis has completed her Orff Schulwerk and Mental Health First Responder certification. Jessica serves on the board of the Hesse Memorial Fund and the advisory board for Breach. In 2017, she was awarded the St. Louis Suburban Music Educators Association’s Merit Award for her contributions to music education, and in 2019, the Spotlight Award from the American Center for Elemental Music and Movement.

Originally from Colorado, Emilee Kellerman started her elementary music teaching career in Washington, Missouri. After three years she transferred to the Rockwood School District where she taught for more than 30 years before retiring in 2022. While teaching Emilee became Orff and Kodaly certified and was involved in many committees and organizations. Her proudest accomplishments are her three children, two of whom are elementary music teachers in the St. Louis area. Emilee enjoys spending time with her family and friends, sewing, reading, walking as well as riding her motorcycle.

ROSE INGRAHAM

Volunteer Coordinator

Rose Ingraham has built a career rooted in service, education, and community engagement. She began in the legal and banking sectors before transitioning to education, where she spent 26 years with the Rockwood School District, coordinating programs, organizing career fairs, facilitating job shadowing, and serving as Registrar—supporting students academically and emotionally, particularly those with diverse learning needs.

Known for her compassion and dependability, Rose became a trusted advocate for students and a valued partner to educators and families, earning the affectionate nickname “Grandma Rose” upon retirement.

She continues her commitment to community through volunteer leadership with the St. Louis Symphony Volunteer Association, where she chairs Express the Music, and as a supporter of Different Dynamics alongside her husband, Ray. Rose takes pride in furthering her daughter Jessica’s mission to make the arts more inclusive and accessible. Whether coordinating volunteers or mentoring young learners, she brings warmth, compassion, and an unwavering belief in the power of music and education to everything she does.

Gregory J. heaney

The Music Exploratorium Program Director

Greg Heaney is a musician, music educator, music producer, composer, arranger, and performer. He has spent the past 16 years teaching music to a wide variety of people of all abilities, from individuals with Autism to preschoolers, up to private students in their 70s.

Life changed for Greg when he formed his first band in the 7th grade and started writing his own songs and material. This set him on the path to discovering his own musical identity and to finding other like-minded individuals to play with and make great art. As part of his professional mission, he would like to offer the opportunity for musical discovery to as many people as he can.

Greg pursued his musical path at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA, as an undergraduate, majoring in music industry studies with an emphasis on jazz guitar. After moving out of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Greg headed to Chicago to work in the music scene and then realized he wanted to work with young people.

While pursuing a teaching certificate at St. Louis University, Greg started working at a self-contained special education building as an Applied Behavior Analysis paraprofessional, during which he fell in love with working with people with disabilities. He's turned that passion into a career where he gets to lead musical experiences for kids all day, every day.

Greg is also a husband and a father. He and his wife Carrie have two beautiful young kids and live in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Christina Angle

Dynamic Studio Band

Christina is a Music Educator who has been teaching in schools, teaching privately, and directing in special music programs for over a decade. Her passion for special music education was discovered during her collegiate years, when one of her professors opened the door to a whole new side of the field. Christina found her passion when she witnessed the therapeutic power of music through her experience as a first volunteer, then facilitator of the Music JAM (Just Accessible Music) program, and as the Music Director for the Penguin Project of McLean County. Watching the musicians and artists she worked with go from hiding in their shells to being center stage singing or playing their hearts out, gives her more joy than words can describe. The power of music and how it brings out the best in people, as well as brings people together, is a beautiful thing that Christina wants to continue to create spaces for more and more people to experience.

When she’s not teaching or directing, Christina loves to perform with her band on her saxophone, play ultimate frisbee and roller derby, go for runs and hikes, play D&D, read a good fantasy book, paint, work on a puzzle, and take her motorcycle out around town. 

Paula BErner

Paula is a recently retired special education music teacher. Paula taught students with disabilities for 31 years, 28 of those years with the Special School District of St. Louis County. For the last 20 years, Paula taught music to students at Litzsinger School. Paula has been a big proponent of sensory-friendly opportunities for the special needs community. She’s worked closely with Opera Theatre St. Louis and Stages St. Louis and provides the sensory awareness training to the musical artists and staff prior to sensory-friendly performances. Paula has been recognized for work in her field. She was chosen as Special School District’s Teacher of the Year in 2004. In 2005 she was one of six finalists for Missouri Teacher of the Year and in that same year received the Emerson Excellence in Education Award. In 2007 Paula was a Founders Award recipient from Fontbonne University and in 2014, she was chosen as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Educator of the Year.

Holly Connor is a student at Webster University pursuing a degree in Vocal Performance and a minor in Spanish. Since discovering her love of the stage at age ten, she has performed in over one hundred operas, musicals, plays, cabarets, and musical revues in school, youth theaters, and professional organizations. In addition to voice, Holly trains in Classical and Jazz Piano, first playing the piano before she could walk or talk. Her career goals are to be an invited singer with symphonies, a voice actor, a music educator for individuals with disabilities, and continue to sing live national anthem at sporting events. Being born blind and autistic, she shares her story to advocate for Awareness, Inclusion, and Acceptance within The Arts.

Marie Kellermann currently teaches Elementary Music in the Rockwood School District. She obtained her undergraduate degree of Music Education from Missouri State University where she participated in the choir and marching band. In June of 2023, Marie graduated with her Masters in Special Education from Northwest Missouri State University. In her free time, Marie enjoys running with her dog, Delilah, and playing trumpet in several community bands in the St. Louis area.

Karen Stafford

Karen is a retired elementary music specialist, church music director, Teachers Pay Teachers seller, and adjunct professor from Union, Missouri. Dr. Stafford obtained her BME and MA from the University of Central Missouri and her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and has all three levels of Orff Schulwerk and Kodaly. She has presented clinics and workshops at the local, state, and national levels and has had several articles published in the Orff Echo. Currently, Dr. Stafford serves as music director for Zion United Church of Christ in Union, an adjunct for Central Methodist University, and supervises student teachers for Missouri State University on an as-needed basis.

Dr.Stafford is a CASA volunteer (Court Appointed Special Advocate) with the Franklin and Gasconade Counties (MO) system. On the home front, she is not ashamed to admit she is a rescue pet mommy, and spoils her dog and cat without regret. She loves yoga and swimming, and her kitty is especially happy about Dr. Stafford taking up crocheting.