<div>My guest this episode is Jessica Perez. I caught up with Jessica to talk about how they got their start as a journalist, starting the community blog <a href="https://misneighbors.wordpress.com/">MisNeighbors</a>, mentoring youth as part of their work with the Boyle Heights Beat, to working in the L.A. Times. You can follow Jessica on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/JessicaPerezLA2">@JessicaPerezLA2</a>. You can check out old neighborhood blog post on <a href="https://misneighbors.wordpress.com/">www.MisNeighbors.wordpress.com</a>.   </div>

59: Órale Boyle Heights Ep 59: Christopher Cruz

Órale Boyle Heights is an interview podcast in which host, Erick Huerta, interviews friends, foos, acquaintances, artist, and anyone who says yes to being on his show. #ÓraleBoyleHeights comes at you live sometimes from RadioEspacio.org (http://radioespacio.org/) every 4th Saturday of the month from 2 to 4 pm and is sometimes recorded at Espacio 1839. The rest of the time he is doing remote recordings from some random location at some random day of the week. You can follow Erick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ElRandomHero) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/elrandomhero/) as @ElRandomHero.