My name is Jesus. I am 15 years old and a youth organizer at Make The Road By Walking, a non-profit organization.
I am in 10th grade at Bushwick High School. I live in Bushwick Brooklyn, NY where my radio recordings take place. (October 2000)
Interesting fact: I have a dead cat named Ooki.
Rookie Reporter Jesus Gonzalez appears in the following:
Radio Rookies 10 Year Anniversary: Where Are They Now?
Friday, November 13, 2009
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Radio Rookies, we're bringing you updates from Rookies whose stories aired years ago. Jesus Gonzalez and Jose Lopez were in one of the earliest Rookies workshops, in 2001. At the time, they were working as youth organizers at the community group Make the Road New York in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Almost a decade has passed and they're still there. But their group has grown to more than 70 young members.
Rookies Anniversary
Monday, November 09, 2009
Growing Up, Getting By
Friday, July 10, 2009
WNYC’s Radio Rookies program takes listeners inside the most intimate moments of teenager’s lives. Now, for the first time, we present a special, “Growing Up, Getting By”, an hour of stories and interviews about how teenagers find their way to adulthood.
Let Me Just Breathe
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
For Jesus, it’s one of those nights when you’re young that almost sends your life in an entirely different direction. This is a story about the most basic kind of survival.