Eduardo Jimenez, Author at Oakland Voices

A boxing gym in East Oakland with concrete floors and bags handing from ceiling while one man is boxing in the right corner

From Blight to Fight: Gopa Boxing Club Hopes to Train Next Generation of Oakland Boxers

August 26, 2022 Eduardo Jimenez 3

The gray brick walls on the outside of the soon-to-be-opened Gopa Boxing Club are thick with layers of painted-over gang graffiti. Inside these walls, a brand-new boxing ring now sits and punching bags lay on […]

The Neighborhood DNA

March 1, 2018 Eduardo Jimenez 2

Every morning when I look at my bathroom mirror, I notice how my face has changed since I first started noticing that my face does indeed change during my teen years, almost 30 years ago. […]

My Spiritual Aunt – in English and Spanish

November 22, 2017 Eduardo Jimenez 4

When I was younger, I lost my wallet and turned my house upside down looking for it. I had worked a graveyard shift at work and after resting in the morning, that afternoon I went […]

Eduardo Jimenez

From Blight to Fight: Gopa Boxing Club Hopes to Train Next Generation of Oakland Boxers

The Neighborhood DNA

My Spiritual Aunt – in English and Spanish

Oakland Voices Alumna Ayodele Nzinga Featured in ‘The New Yorker’ Film “The Game God(S)”

Oakland Voices Alumni Update: Marabet Morales Sikahall Joins Chapter 510

Oakland Voices Alumna Ayodele Nzinga is City’s First Poet Laureate

Oakland Voices Alumna Iris M. Crawford Attending MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing