Get to Know Me

What can I say about myself? I'm defined by lot's of things -- family, passion, work.

I was raised in Miami by an incredible family of Cuban and Basque blood. My grandfather owned a restaurant named Centro Vasco in 1940's Havana, Cuba. My father brought the restaurant to Miami in the 60's after the Revolution where I was raised as a little girl hearing all the stories in my dads bar from a heartbroken exile. Writer Susan Orlean wrote a lovely feature in The New Yorker detailing both buildings.

And then New York took me away. I have 15 years of experience in the Media business with Senior positions held at Jane Magazine, Details Magazine, and Paper Magazine, serving in different capacities from Entertainment Editor to Promotions Director (I thrive wearing different caps). That means both Jane Pratt and Kim Hastreiter were my mentors coming up the pipe, as well as creative mothers. I've also been Dj'ing for 15 years and will never put my records in storage.

After 10 years in Print Media, I decided to take a pilgrimage back to Cuba to discover my roots and ended up creating East of Havana. I have been invited to American Universities to lecture on Cuban Youth Movements-- from Yale to University of Miami -- and encourage the conversation of improving relations between the United States and Cuba. See Arpad Busson's Cuba in Revolution panel discussion at the New York Times building moderated by Christiane Amanpour alongside other Cuba experts Jon Lee Anderson and Saul Landau. I also serve as an Ambassador for Sisters on the Planet, a movement of powerful women and men who are teaming up with Oxfam to help women around the world fight hunger, poverty, and climate change -- such as Cambodia's SRI efforts to increase crop yield.

Today, I am all about the internet. Currently, I am the Editor + Senior Writer for The Standard Hotel Culture site owned by Hotelier Andre Balazs (of Chateau Marmont & Mercer Hotel) while contributing to other sites such as The Fader or Nowness. I still contribute to independent print magazines such as Frank and The Last Magazine. To see more work, go to this page.

For Directing work, see "Jauretsi & Crystal" at This is Frank. Email robin@thisisfrank.com or call 646.602.9688.

Jauretsi
pronounced /ha-ret-see/

Web Properties:
Sugar Barons (All Things Digital, Film, Arts & Culture)
Jauretsi is a Badass (Visual Inspiration Board)
The New Cuba