Jewel Fraser
Jewel Fraser worked as a freelance environmental journalist and her stories have appeared in international publications, including the UK Guardian, Inter Press Service, Reuters, and Deutsche Welle. She completed a course in podcast production with RNTC in the Netherlands nine years ago, and began producing podcasts for publication just over two years ago. In 2020, Jewel received an Emerging Producers bursary from the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers to support her work in audio documentary production. Last year, the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists awarded Jewel a grant to produce a 3-part podcast story for Trinidad local media. She completed that project and it has since been published. Jewel is now researching another three-part podcast documentary.
PRACTICE STATEMENT
Jewel’s work as an audio documentary producer builds on and utilizes principles learned during her many years writing features as a journalist. She has embraced audio now as her preferred medium since it permits her to create stories that are more multi-sensory. Her motivation as an artist is simply to share the many wonderful but as yet untold stories from the Caribbean, and create those stories to such a high standard that they resonate with international audiences and gain attention not just in the Caribbean but worldwide. She believes Caribbean people have much to be proud of, and it is important that their stories are caught and recorded for posterity or they may eventually be lost for good.