{"id":683,"date":"2017-04-29T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-04-17T17:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:18:17","slug":"jessica-lynn-huertas-pringle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Lynn Huertas-Pringle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>At Home in the Community<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Marisol Hernandez | Photography\u00a0courtesy CNY Latino\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Lynn Huertas-Pringle, the unit director at the Hamilton Street Boys and Girls Club, considers herself blessed to have her unique cultural background.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am half Puerto Rican and half Polish,\u201d Jessica shared proudly.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica was born and raised in Syracuse, and her parents met on the Westside of the city; but Jessica\u2019s story really starts with her grandmother\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n<p>After being held in a concentration camp, Jessica\u2019s grandmother came to America and found a job in Syracuse. Speaking mostly Polish, she struggled as she raised her three children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandmother still lives in the same house where my mother was born,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cShe shares with me a lot about her country. The stories she has from her country are shocking, but I love to spend time with her, hearing the stories and learning how to make Polish Golumpki, stuffed cabbage rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica learned to respect and appreciate different traditional foods from her Latino culture by going with her parents to festivals and participating in parades and cultural events. To this day, they continue to attend as a family, even traveling to festivals in Rochester and Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica is the middle child of five. She and her siblings are following the example of her mother, a retired Syracuse City School District employee. Her oldest sister, Mayra, is a social worker at Delaware School, serving the community that helped raise them. Her sister, Natasha, is raising three young boys. Her youngest sister, Tanisha, works for the probation department. Jessica\u2019s brother is following in their father\u2019s footsteps, working for the city of Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica\u2019s husband, Corey Pringle, brings another cultural dynamic into the mix. He\u2019s African American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is kind of funny because America is like a melting pot, and so is my family,\u201d Jessica said.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica and Corey are soon celebrating the first birthday of their daughter \u2014 their \u201cpride and joy\u201d \u2014 Coreyanis Leona Barbara Pringle. The name Coreyanis carries special meaning to the young parents, as it honors loved ones who have passed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel most proud of my family,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cThe way my parents raised us is to love our community, to have respect for others, to give back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica started getting involved and building an impressive resume at an early age. During her time at Fowler High School, she was part of the Boys and Girls Club. In 2005, she was named \u201cYouth of the Year.\u201d She also received the Senator Resolution Award. She\u2019s the founder of Syracuse Teens on the Move for Prevention, served on the Syracuse Commission for Women, the Home HeadQuarters youth residents committee and the Hispanic Youth Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, she began studying at Mohawk Valley Community College, but grew homesick and transferred to Onondaga Community College, where she\u2019s currently working toward a degree in human services.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Jessica is the unit director at the Hamilton Street Boys and Girls Club. She is a successful, productive and caring citizen, exemplifying what the club stands for. At the club, she\u2019s started a Spanish class that teaches the students about other countries and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that if you care for people and build a relationship, they will then be there for you and do anything for you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When Jessica is not at the club, she\u2019s helping her husband with his passion. Corey created a traveling basketball team called Lockitsquad315. The squad means family, not only on the court, but in the community, Jessica explained. Last year, they played at a tournament in Virginia and Philadelphia, communities the children on the team would never have seen if not for this opportunity. This year, the squad plans to travel to Connecticut and Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great thing and very rewarding to take these young men outside the community and the violence,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cThe kids are really grateful and always thanking us.\u201d <em>SWM <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was provided by the CNY Latino newspaper, the only Hispanic-oriented publication in Central New York. The Spanish version of this article can be read in the May edition of CNY Latino, in both the traditional paper version and the digital format at <a href=\"http:\/\/cnylatinonewspaper.com\" target=\"_blank\">cnylatinonewspaper.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Home in the Community By Marisol Hernandez | Photography\u00a0courtesy CNY Latino\u00a0 Jessica Lynn Huertas-Pringle, the unit director at the Hamilton Street Boys and Girls Club, considers herself blessed to have her unique cultural background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[138,139,209,140,201],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-cny-latina","tag-cny-latino","tag-jessica-lynn-huertas-pringle","tag-marisol-hernandez","tag-may-2017"],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CNYL-May-17_03.jpg?fit=5200%2C3442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":528,"url":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=528","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":0},"title":"Myrna Garc\u00eda-Calder\u00f3n","author":"Staff","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Power of Identity By Marisol Hernandez | Photo provided by CNY Latino When she arrived in the United States in 1979, Myrna Garc\u00eda Calder\u00f3n, the director of Syracuse University\u2019s Latino-Latin American Studies program, never intended to call the country home. \u201cThis is the longest mental temporary stay in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Features&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Features","link":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?cat=101"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Z_CNY-Latina-0317_ONLINE-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Z_CNY-Latina-0317_ONLINE-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Z_CNY-Latina-0317_ONLINE-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Z_CNY-Latina-0317_ONLINE-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Z_CNY-Latina-0317_ONLINE-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":312,"url":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=312","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":1},"title":"Rosemary Arroyo-P\u00e9rez","author":"Staff","date":"January 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Healthy Family By Marisol Hernandez | Photography provided by CNY Latino Rosemary Arroyo-P\u00e9rez, a first generation Puerto Rican hailing from New York City, fell in love with Syracuse when she moved to the area as a teenager 31 years ago. 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