Name: Will Taschler

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 24, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Jonathan Gamberg

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We had an in person interview with Jonathan Gamberg who is the associate director of the City Parks Foundation. He mostly works in Queens and Brooklyn but spends time in the other three boroughs as well. He is one of three full time workers at the City Parks Foundation.

He first talked about how the organization has sporting events around the city throughout the year. These events are for kids ages 6-18 to provide them with sports that are free to play. These events are mostly instructed by the 120 part-timers that they hire every year. Jonathan explained how he tends to hire students in high school/college that are interested in sports because it is a good opportunity for them. Those high school and college students teacher the 60 percentile of the people they hire the other 50-40 are older people. Gamberg told us how he does partnerships with professional sports teams in the city. He originally wanted to work for a professional team but when he got this job at a younger age, he fell in love with it. He says he loves providing kids with free to play, good quality sports.