Janet Jay is a journalist, podcaster, speaker, consultant, and chronic pain advocate. She is the Content Editor and Advocate in Residence at the U.S. Pain Foundation, where she edits the national magazine INvisible Project. Her reporting on chronic pain, disability, and medical technology has appeared in Popular Science, VICE Motherboard, Maxim, and other outlets.

What is Janet Jay's role at the U.S. Pain Foundation?

Janet Jay serves as Content Editor and Advocate in Residence at the U.S. Pain Foundation. She edits the foundation's national magazine, INvisible Project, and shapes editorial coverage that centers patients living with chronic pain.

What is Our Painful Truth?

Our Painful Truth is Janet Jay's journalism and podcast project reporting from the gap between medicine and human experience — covering chronic pain, disability, and the medical technologies reshaping life with invisible illness.

What does Janet Jay write and speak about?

Chronic pain, disability, invisible illness, spinal cord stimulators and other medical technology, patient advocacy, and how to navigate a healthcare system that often fails the people it's meant to serve.

How can I contact Janet Jay for media, speaking, or consulting?

Email janetkjay@gmail.com for media inquiries, speaking engagements, consulting work, or to pitch a story or podcast guest.

Writer · Speaker · Advocate

Uncovering the painful truth in technology, science, and the human body.

Janet Jay bridges the gap between high-tech medical science and the gritty, human reality of living with chronic illness.

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