Jocelyn Gonzales is an independent audio producer and educator in New York City.
She teaches sound design in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and serves 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 are produced by students in her area each semester. Previously, she was a Tisch 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 produces 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 is also currently producing for the MashUp Americans podcast from American Public Media's Infinite Guest network.
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 the New York State Associated Press and 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, and the AIR Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive at Union Docs.
She teaches sound design in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and serves 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 are produced by students in her area each semester. Previously, she was a Tisch 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 produces 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 is also currently producing for the MashUp Americans podcast from American Public Media's Infinite Guest network.
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 the New York State Associated Press and 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, and the AIR Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive at Union Docs.
