Rachael Cerrotti
Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, audio producer, educator and visual storyteller. Her work focuses on exploring the inheritance of memory. For more than a decade, she retraced her grandmother’s refugee experience and in 2019 released a narrative podcast, titled We Share The Same Sky, about this story. The show was the first-ever documentary podcast to be based on a Holocaust survivor’s testimony and collected many accolades including being listed as one of the best podcasts of 2019 by HuffPost. The show is now being taught in classrooms worldwide. Rachael’s memoir, also titled We Share The Same Sky, was published in 2021 and received the Maine Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Rachael’s work has been featured by NPR, PRI’s The World, All Things Considered, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and various other publications. In 2017, she was the subject of an award-winning multimedia series produced by WBUR titled Beyond Sides of History. Her stories have been used in curriculums developed by and for Discovery Education, USC Shoah Foundation, Echoes & Reflections, Facing History & Ourselves, Jewish Women’s Archive and others. She consults on storytelling with museums and organizations worldwide and is currently curating her first exhibit for the Florida Holocaust Museum which is an adaptation of her We Share The Same Sky project. Rachael sits on the board of Aegis Trust and the Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine. She recently wrapped her multi-year fellowship with USC Shoah Foundation as their Inaugural Storyteller in Residence where she created, hosted and produced The Memory Generation podcast.
Rachael has worked in over a dozen countries and is now happy to be putting down roots in Portland, Maine.