DAVID LUIS ”SUAVE” GONZALEZ: Yes, I met Maria Hinojosa in 1993. I was just coming out of solitary confinement, and a older gentleman gave me a radio that had three stations.

DAVID LUIS ”SUAVE” GONZALEZ: Yes, I met Maria Hinojosa in 1993. I was just coming out of solitary confinement, and a older gentleman gave me a radio that had three stations.

Sentenced at age 17, David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez was serving life without parole when he met reporter Maria Hinojosa. A new podcast from Futuro Media follows Suave’s path to freedom—and ...

Maria Hinojasa’s Pulitzer Prize winning podcast, “Suave”, is literally decades in the making. Hinojosa and David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez, the namesake for the podcast, first met in 1993 while ...

GONZALEZ: I always understood what a source meant. You know, and I say all the time, in 2017 when I stepped out that prison, not my family, not my community, not my friends - it was Maria Hinojosa ...

Suave continued this community based work after his release. He had worked as a case manager for the 25th Police District, assisting low level offenders avoid prison.

From left, executive producer Maria Hinojosa, David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, and co-host Maggie Freleng record for “Suave” podcast. (Photo by Futuro Studios) ...

For years, Suave Gonzalez has been telling his story through TED talks and the Pulitzer-winning podcast Suave, but lately he’s focused on showing what he experienced through an art exhibit ...