Jacqueline Raposo in a studio shot wearing a black shirt with pens and markers sticking out of her hair. She is miming smoking with a red Sharpie marker.
I’m a writer, podcast producer, and creative project manager.
Everything I do comes back to one-on-one conversation. I help people tell their stories as fully and vulnerably as possible so to then connect my readers and listeners with experiences outside of their own.
I began my professional career with a BFA in stage acting and playwriting—performing, producing, and teaching in New York and regionally for a decade. But the Lyme disease I first got in childhood recurred again in college, and then in adulthood. And so when increasing disability required a physically-gentler work life, I shifted my focus to freelance food journalism, exploring the people behind the plates with the same curiosity I once hounded characters across a stage. I’ve published hundreds of food stories for clients including Saveur, Food & Wine, Plate, Tasting Table, Shondaland, Bust, Serious Eats, Dr. Oz, Cosmopolitan, and many more. I’ve also worked as a private chef, a food stylist assistant, a food video host, a gluten-free baking blogger, and advised professional chefs on how to gluten-free their recipes.
As audio offers another way for minds to absorb stories, my first full podcast - Love Bites Radio - explored why and how we love. I currently produce Service: Stories of Hunger and War, a sound-rich time capsule featuring veterans telling stories about war, food, grit, and grace.
Now living with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), I publish essays and articles on chronic illness disability, helped co-found the #MarchingWithMe campaign, and collect work and resources at my On Being Ill page.
My book — The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness (Ixia Press, 2019) — crosses memoir and case study, with interviews with super-smart professionals explaining why my inner life changed dramatically after a year of shifting habits. It’s a helpful read for when you’re looking to make those big changes to your inner life we always talk about making.
Thanks for stopping by.
Source, Personal Essays, Opinion Editorial, Reported Features, Essays, Copyediting, Editing, Radio Appearances, Podcast Appearances
Additional Credentials
I record field interviews, engineer, edit, and publish audio/podcast segments for audio producers and take publication-level photography for print magazine clients.
