Zachary Ceri Jones Neuray

Originally from Brussels, Belgium, Zachary Jones Neuray grew up in a multi-cultural household with the likes of a Franco-Belgian father and British mother. Having moved to Portland in the winter of 2006, Zachary would go onto attend Lincoln High School before taking a gap year in 2018 where he worked for Carolyn Long's midterm campaign and lived in Tanzania for two months as a primary school educator and urban gardening volunteer. After completing his freshman year at American University in Washington D.C., Zachary transferred to the University of Oregon to pursue a degree in Journalism and Anthropology in the fall of 2020. His passion for music, community and journalism would lead him to becoming a DJ for KWVA 88.1 FM in the winter of 2022 where he would launch the first podcast of its kind in the region, "The 5th", interviewing up and coming bands in the Eugene area. Since then he's reported on a variety of local and international projects, including his coverage of the midterm elections in 2022 under the Catalyst Solutions Journalism Project, serving as a research assistant on the Agora's Center for Journalism's case study on news ecosystems in Southern Oregon, Director of KWVA 88.1 FM's News Department and becoming a reporter and Senior Research Fellow for the Crossings Institute of Conflict Sensitive Reporting and Intercultural Dialogue where he would report on UNESCO's annual World Press Freedom Day in New York and Santiago, Chile.

During his most recent trip to South America, Jones Neuray interviewed the Palestinian Ambassador Vera Baboun and President of the Palestinian's Journalists Syndicate, Nasser Abu Baker, at the Palestinian embassy. During that time he would also begin directing the documentary film, "No Quiet Hours", a deep dive into the ethos of DIY music and its socio-cultural impact in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Highlighted through the college house-show community in Eugene, Oregon and its emergence as a creative epicenter in the post-pandemic era.

Since the summer of 2024, Jones Neuray became a Radio DJ for the Portland station, KBOO 90.7 FM, and relocated to Madrid, Spain, in the fall of 2024 where he is working on completing his documentary based in Oregon while creating an app for refugee services in the United Kingdom, DJing for the London based radio station, Brixton Radio and developing another documentary project focusing on the National Syrian Orchestra and their Glastonbury performance in 2016 with Gorillaz.