Name: Tobi Petrzela

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):Associate Director of City Parks Foundation

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?[:: :

After a week of emailing I had scheduled to meet in person with Jonathan Gamberg, the associate director of a non – profit in NYC, City Parks Foundation. He met us at 11:15 in front of the school building and we led him to the office where we sat down and started our interview. During the interview we were not only all focused, but we all asked planned questions, listened, and did our best. We started by learning how the foundation sets up events and sport opportunities for all NYC children 6 – 18 free of charge. Later in the interview I learned more about Jonathan himself and his personal story. Overall we had one our best interviews with Jonathan and we learned a lot more about the organization and how it corresponds with our project.