Jazz vocalist, Alexis Cole is an adventurer. She spent a year with AmeriCorps right after college, followed by music study in Mubai, five years travelling through Europe busking and hitchhiking, then joined the Army for a seven-year hitch as the lead singer for West Point’s Jazz Knights Big Band. Alexis is now the head of the jazz vocal department at SUNY Purchase but when we talked, she was isolating in her Pennsylvania cabin in the woods where she had used her pandemic time to learn new skills and create opportunities for others.