Interview, Michael Ross

Michael Ross was born in 1970 in Sarasota, Florida. His family moved to Rochester, New York, when he was about 18 months old because his father got a job in the Sociology Department at the University of Rochester. He attended John Walton Spencer School No. 16 for elementary school and part of middle school. He then attended Monroe Junior-Senior High for the remainder of his middle school education and the first year of high school. After this, he attended and graduated from Allendale Columbia. He moved to New Mexico for a year of college, returned to live in Rochester for a year, and then moved to New York City, where he met his wife. In 1997, he moved back to Rochester with his wife. Ross earned a degree in earth science from SUNY Brockport. At the time of this interview, he works as the Geographic Information System Coordinator in the City of Rochester’s Information Technology Department.

In this interview Michael Ross discusses his education, his job and how he came to it, and his memories of growing up in Rochester. He explains his view of the neighborhood he grew up in, what he thinks of Rochester and Monroe county, his movement between Rochester schools, his children, and music.