Hi, I’m Carissa…
a Boston based storyteller, skilled communicator, content producer, and creative strategist.
As a project coordinator in research spaces, I’ve learned how to navigate complex projects, synthesize information, and collaborate across disciplines. These experiences in conjunction with studying psychology, neuroscience, and science communication inform my fascination with the through line of storytelling in everything we do. With a keen eye for scientific rigor and fluency in digital trends, I now bring these skills to creative strategy, content development, and brand storytelling.
I’m most inspired by projects that connect us back to ourselves and to shared experiences of culture and community.
I’m currently expanding my portfolio through project-based work bringing brand essence and creative vision to life through actionable strategy and coordination. I am open to collaborations including but not limited to
social media content ideation, strategy, and production
photography and videography services
content writing and strategy for Substack or other online platforms
event planning processes and execution support
podcast ideation, filming and interviewing, editing, social media promotion
If you’re building something that celebrates curiosity, community, or creative expression—especially within lifestyle, travel, food, event planning, or wellness spaces, I’d love to be part of it.
Let’s Connect
inquiries : carissaackermann1@gmail.com
check out my social platforms, where I’m exploring new creative ideas and developing my portfolio in real time.
these are a few of my favorite things, gallery style:
at-home coffee creations
boston photography, north end 2025
long walks
travel! I can often be found romanticizing the airport
coffee shop content
capturing the magic of boston
routines and rituals, my mornings currently include a passage from The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest
to me experiencing a city is experiencing its cafes, Sofra Bakery and Cafe 2025
more capturing the magic of boston
why self talk? behind the scenes of what this title means to me
//the inner monologue
Mid-way through college I became aware of how destructive the words I was using towards myself were. As Miguel Ruiz writes in his famous Four Agreements, I was, chronically, “using the word against myself”. Every day.
That’s a lot of negativity coming from inside the house.
Words are a most powerful tool, they can be the catalyst for bringing our dreams, desires, and intentions to life. Or they can tear down, spread negativity, keep up stuck in a prison of our own design.
This kick started a journey of rewriting my inner scripts and rebuilding trust and compassion with myself. I now know this to be the foundation for how I show up for everyone else in my life.
We can only meet others at the depths we’re willing to meet ourselves.
//the audio diaries
After college I moved from the Midwest where I’d spent most of my life to the East Coast. This will forever be known as chapter one in my plot of real adulthood.
Leaving home has continually forced me to face the discomfort of being alone and at times very lonely. Learning to genuinely enjoy space and stillness with myself has been a wise teacher and a painful process.
From this space came a tool I use almost daily to meet myself, to exercise my voice, to create the connection I’m craving from the inside out. I open the voice memo app, I speak out whatever is on my heart and mind as if I am sending a voice memo to a friend or ranting to my therapist.
At first this felt very silly, especially in public where I still occasionally fake a phone call if I suspect someone nearby is listening. In the most literal way, self talk is me talking to myself, out loud, every day. These audio diaries remain essential because they allow me the ability to plug back in, and to process whatever the day brings any time anywhere. They bring me back to remembering I’m the main character of my movie.