Jocelyn Gonzales is Director of PRX Productions at PRX. Previously she was Executive Producer of the Peabody Award winning Studio 360, hosted by Kurt Andersen, author and co-founder of the legendary "Spy" magazine. Studio 360 was public radio's smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts, featuring the people who are creating and shaping our culture. She joined the show in June 2017 after serving in an interim role. Studio 360 is produced by PRI/PRX in association with Slate Magazine.
Since 2004, Jocelyn taught sound design in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and served as director of the first year program, supporting courses in photography and video, animation, screenwriting, directing, film history, audio, and production supervision. Over 1500 video, sound, and animation projects were produced by students in her area each semester. She served as co-chair of the department's Admissions Committee and was a member of the Students and Faculty of Color mentorship committee. Previously, she was a Tisch faculty advisor and internship coordinator for the award-winning campus radio station, WNYU AM/FM .
For The New York Times, Jocelyn produced the weekly NY Times Music Popcast, NY Times Book Review and Times Insider podcasts, and also the late, great NYT Tech Talk podcast. Working with show producers, web developers and technical directors, she helped PRI manage the 2014 launch of the Soundworks podcast network, which featured the podcasts Sideshow from Studio 360; One with Farai, Radio Ambulante: Unscripted and The World in Words. She is working with Headstepper Media, a digital production company that develops new audio/video content for web and mobile. For Headstepper, Jocelyn produced the Strings and Things podcast with host Patrick Grant, and does post-production on the award-winning Work-Up podcast from the Connecticut Health Investigative Team. She also produced the MashUp Americans podcast from American Public Media's Infinite Guest network. She was sound designer/mixer for How It Is and My Best BreakUp, the first podcasts from Reese Witherspoon's production company, Hello Sunshine, and an editor/mixer for Metaphysical Milkshake, hosted by actor/producer Rain Wilson and author and scholar Reza Aslan, and Sunstorm, hosted by NDWA's Aijen Poo and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.
Jocelyn is the technical director and a producer for Feet In Two Worlds, an award-winning ethnic journalism project that trains and mentors reporters in multimedia reporting and social media. She provides equipment training, script support, studio direction and mixing assistance to FI2W contributors and fellows. She co-produces the Ippies Award winning Feet in Two Worlds podcast.
At WNYC, Jocelyn was an Associate Producer and then freelance contributor for the long-running arts and culture program Studio 360. She was a newsroom engineer and a sometime assistant for the WNYC Concert Team. As a producer at-large, she went on to work on some of the station's special series such as the food and restaurant program Dish with Ed Levine, the music magazine Now Hear This! hosted by They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh, and the evening talk show The Conversation with Danyel Smith. She returned to Studio 360 in 2017 to serve as interim Senior Producer.
As an independent radio reporter and producer, her work has appeared on Studio 360, WNYC New York Public Radio, Soundcheck, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money, Radiolab, Musicians Radio on XM Satellite, Ear Studio, Minnesota Public Radio, Pop Tech Jam and Re:Sound.
Jocelyn was the post-production sound engineer for the feature documentary films Living Yoga (directed by Shiva Kumar), Adriana Kaegi's Kid Creole and My Coconuts (uncredited) and Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque (directed by Gary Beeber), and works on audio post for short films or videos. She was one of the sound designers for the Modern Love animated video series on NYTimes.com, and the audio producer/designer for The Snackdown digital animated series for The Cooking Channel.
Jocelyn was a recording engineer, editor and studio production manager for Simon & Schuster Audio and worked on hundreds of audiobook titles by authors such as Stephen King, Don DeLillo, Stephen Ambrose, Frank McCourt, James Lee Burke, and Ethan Coen. She produced and directed several S&S audiobooks including "Skinny Women Are Evil" by Mo'Nique; "How to Get Rich" by Donald Trump; "Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton; and "Not Even for Love" by Sandra Brown. Prior to that, she worked in broadcast and satellite services for ABC Radio Networks and helped produce hour-long radio dramas for Artistic Director Marjorie Van Halteren at The Radio Stage.
In 2009, Jocelyn was a co-producer of the MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology, a four day event at Theaterlab NYC, exploring the use of emerging audio technologies in live musical performance. The festival featured a diverse roster of artists working with traditional instruments and laptop technology, interactive sound projects, software giveaways and workshops in Ableton LIVE and Max for LIVE. She is a content producer for Peppergreen Media, which produces Tilted Axes, International Strange Music Day, In Key and other live musical events.
Jocelyn has received awards from New York Festivals Awards, the New York State Associated Press ,and The Ippies from The Center for Community and Ethnic Media. She's presented at media workshops and class sessions for FI2W, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYS Youth Leadership Council, School of Visual Arts, CORO Immigrant Civic Leadership Program, YouTube Next Labs, the AIR Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive at Union Docs, the Public Radio News Directors and Public Radio Program Directors Association conferences, PRX's Project Catapult podcast training program, NYU Production lab, and the Made in NY Media Center Podcast Certificate program.
Awards
As reporter, producer, executive producer or engineer:
2000 New York State Associated Press (Best Feature)
2017 Online Journalism Awards: Finalist with STAT producing team, Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom, Signal Podcast for Boston Globe Media
2020 New York Festivals Radio Awards: Silver, Best Documentary Series, New York Icons, Studio 360
With Feet in Two Worlds as producer, engineer, mentor:
2005 Sigma Delta Chi Award (first place) for Public Service in Radio Journalism for ‘Feet in Two Worlds: Immigrants in a Global City‘.
2005 New America Award (first place) from the Society of Professional Journalists for Feet in 2 Worlds: Immigrants in a Global City
2013 IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Digital Media Award: Food in 2 Worlds
2014 Ippies Award, The Center for Community and Ethnic Media - Best Audio, Best Multimedia Package - ‘What I Carried‘, A New Collection of Immigration Stories From Fi2W and Cowbird (first place)
2020 Golden Crane Award from the Asian American Podcasters Association - Best COVID Coverage for 'A Better Life?', Season 12021 Golden Crane Award from the Asian American Podcasters Association in the category of Society & Culture for ‘A Better Life?‘, Season 2.
2022 INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism for A Better Life? Season 2
2023 INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism For A Better Life? Season 3
2024 INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism Finalist For A Better Life? Season 4: Home, Interrupted
With PRX as executive producer, producer, editor, or engineer:
2021 CASE Awards - Circle of Excellence Award for Skydeck from Harvard Business School
2022 GOLD at the W3 Awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts for Unsung Science
2022 Signal Awards: Most Innovative Audio Experience for Culturati: Conversations with Kierna Mayo
2022 The Cynopsis Model D and IT List Award: Finalist for Best Podcast/Audio Series for Unsung Science
2022 dotCOMM Awards - Platinum for Best Science Podcast Series for Unsung Science
2022 dotCOMM Awards - Platinum for Best Science Podcast, Unsung Science: How We Blew the Vaccine
2022 International Women’s Podcasting Awards: Best Moment of Raw Emotion for Culturati
2022 Black Podcasting Awards - Best Culture Podcast for Culturati
2023 Signal Awards - Silver - Unsung Science
2023 Signal Awards - Bronze - Culturati - Craft - Most Innovative Audio Experience for Individual Episodes
2023 Webby Awards Honoree in Science and Education- Unsung Science
2023 dotCOMM Awards - Platinum award for Best Science Podcast Series for Unsung Science
2024 New York Festivals Radio Awards Finalist Best Narrative/Documentary Podcast for Monumental
2024 16TH Annual Shorty Awards Silver Honor Best Science and Technology Podcast for SAPIENS
2024 People’s Choice Podcast Awards Finalist for Best History Podcast
2024 Wilbur Award of Excellence: How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality (Season 5)
2024 Wilbur Award of Excellence:Rock That Doesn’t Roll: The Story of Christian Music
2024 NETA Award 56th Public Media Award Winners - The Plate Show (Co-EP)
2024 Signal Award Silver for Best History and Bronze for Best Documentary Podcast: Monumental
2024 Signal Award Silver for Best Religion & Spirituality: Second Sunday (Program Manager)
2024 Black Podcasting Awards - Second Sunday and Moral Repair (Program Manager)
2025 Youth Media Award - The Plate Show (Co-EP and Engineer)
2025 Webby Award - TED's How To Be A Better Human (Producer)