Jackie Barragan is a multi-disciplinary Border artist and community. She has been dancing since a very early age and studied a variety of dance modalities from ballet to belly dance. She received her degree in Anthropology and Minor in Dance at the University of Texas at El Paso where she was awarded Outstanding Service to the Anthropology Department. She was elected President of the Anthropological Association and Vice President of VOX:Voices for Planned Parenthood. She spent a year in Mexico learning from the Zapatista movement about decentralized, grassroots organizing. She co-facilitated many events on and off campus regarding issue’s such as women’s reproductuve rights, indigenous rights, sex education and environmental racism.
She also worked with La Mujer Obrera out of college, an organization formed to advocate for Mexican Women Labor Rights.

Jacqueline acted in the independent film, “While You were in a Coma” as well as has experience in commercial acting.
In 2019, she applied for a local micro-grant through the Caldo Collective for her first short film documentary JOSIE. She won the grant through an extensive process. Her short documentary JOSIE is based on the harrowing story of her mother and how she used her righteous anger in her quest to find retribution against a shared predator with her older sister. All while training in Ciudad Juarez and becoming an undefeated martial artist. The film is narrated by her own daughter adding a more intimate perspective into her mother's story.

Her film JOSIE has screened with the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center and Latino Resource Center in San Antonio, TX., the Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, UTEP Women’s History Month, the Plaza Classic Film Festival and has been accepted into the El Paso Film Festival. On August 8th 2021 Jackie received the First Place Award and the Audience choice award at the Plaza Classic Film festival.

Barragan is also the Director of Community Engagement for Femme Frontera, an organization of Latinx female-identifying filmmakers based out of the border whose purpose is to create more opportunities for Latinx, BIPOC, non-binary, and women filmmakers in order to uplift voices in underrepresented communities.

She has also received a micro-grant from PBS REEL South for her second short documentary called Ome Tlaloc about a local Indigenous border artist.

In 2023 she was chosen for the PBS REEL South Hindsight program where she is the Director, Writer and Producer of her poetic short documentary Echoes of the Rio. Echoes of the Rio premiered at the Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival and received the Audience Choice Award at the New Orleans Film Festival, Best Docuentary at the Mira Media Fest, and Best Local Short at the Las Cruces International Film Festival.