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About me, huh? ..
Hmm...I grew up in the city of Chicago. Not the suburbs. That's a pet peeve of mine when people say they're from Chicago but they grew up in Elmhurst. Although, honestly, I really don't care that much. My street cred is solid. HA! Now a REAL pet peeve...don't call me "Joe Hernandez." That's my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my uncle and my cousin. Not me. They're all "Joe Hernandez." Mine is "Joe Hernandez-Kolski." The hyphen is incredibly important too. In my opinion, it's the most important punctuation mark known to man because it bridges gaps. Brings two things together. So I'm from Chicago, grew up on the northwest side, went to Whitney Young High School on the west side, graduated and went to Princeton University, got my ass suspended for a year, went and worked at the White House under Clinton doing speechwriting and policy analysis for the health care war room, then moved over to public liaison and did Latino outreach, danced at Club Zei by night, met lots of girls, found out I was a sexual being, returned to Princeton, got my ego crushed yet again and was walking to the Wa alone at 2 in the morning to buy a hoagie within weeks, graduated, then moved out to Los Angeles. Once I got out here to work as an actor, at first I was working for a bunch of afterschool programs. I still run an open-mic for high school youth called DOWNBEAT 720 with DJ Jedi. I also write and perform lots of spoken word poetry and dance a lot. But I'm mostly focused on acting, the whole reason that I moved out here. If you want a real bio, check out www.pochojoe.com/bio.html. That's the one that makes me sound like a real hard-working actor.
Check out the scene below from AFTERSCHOOL'D, a short that I wrote and produced with director Pete Alton (BET's "BEEF" series)
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