Multimedia Storyteller
Award Winning Journalist • Writer • Emerging Documentarian
Hi! I’m Jennifer
Multimedia Storyteller & Emerging Documentarian
But more than that, I’m a late-identified neurodivergent woman living my life in real time. I’m unmasking, rebuilding, and discovering what it means to create a life that actually feels like my own.
I create from that lived experience and share my work here — stories woven with reflection, insight, and the process as it unfolds. Because sometimes, recognizing yourself in someone else’s story changes everything.
MY MISSION
“follow the story,
tell the truth,
create something that matters”
Stumbled Into This Work by Accident… Kinda
At 42 years old, decades of burnout and performing my way through life had caught up to me in ways I could no longer ignore. So I saw a doctor.
In just under two years, I was diagnosed with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Ehlers Danlos (a connective tissue disorder that results in hypermobile joints, chronic pain, and a whole host of other challenges). Oh, and perimenopause — because that’s a real thing too.
I suddenly realized that everything I thought I understood about myself was wrong. Everything.
That’s when I started digging. I made it my mission to get to know the REAL me. To rewrite the narrative I’d been shamefully holding onto around who I am and how I move through the world. And more importantly, to document and share my journey in hopes that it might one day help even one other person with theirs.
WHAT I’M DOING NOW
ABOUT THE WORK
My work, while ever-evolving, lives at the intersection of personal truth and the stories we’ve been taught to believe— examining identity, burnout, perception, and what happens when those narratives begin to break down.
Awards & Affiliations
The Advocate Student Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief
2026 – Present
OMPA (Oregon Media Production Association), Member
2026 – Present
ONPA Collegiate Newspaper Award:
First Place — Best Editorial
2026
Contributor, Venture Magazine
2026
Projects
FILM
tear sheets
behind the scenes
PROFESSIONAL BIO
She is currently completing her degree in Integrated Media with a focus on video production, while building a body of work centered on documentary, narrative nonfiction, and storytelling rooted in lived experience.
Her work explores identity, burnout, unmasking, and what happens when we stop performing and start living.
Jennifer weaves personal narrative into cultural commentary while learning to balance school, The Advocate, and the realities of everyday life as a late-identified neurodivergent woman.
Her commitment: follow the story, tell the truth, and create something that matters.
Her work is always evolving, because so is she.
Preferred method of contact:
Email to hello@jenniferchilders.com