Shaking Her Booty in the Face of Adversity
Last fall, I did a story about Jackie Cabrera, then-South Kitsap resident who had been accepted to the Western Culinary Institute of Portland and was set to become the cooking school’s first blind student. Today, we’ll catch up with Jackie, who graduated from the WCI with honors in October. She now lives in Lacey and is ready to start her own catering business.
I always enjoy an inspiring, woman-conquers-adversity story. Jackie made the interview last year especially fun because she has such a great sense of humor.
Of her can-do attitude, she said, “I had a choice when I became blind. My choice was to go into depression and keep crying, or to shake my booty and get going. I decided to shake my booty.”
As you can see from the video below, she also has great stage presence. As she says at the end of the video, “Look out Rachel Ray!”
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