2024 Honoree
Jonathan Conyers, BS, RRT, RRT-NPS’17
BS Respiratory CareRespiratory Therapist at NYU Langone Medical Center, Founder of Conyers Media and
Conyers Real Estate, Co-Founder of The Brooklyn Debate League
- Author of acclaimed memoir "I Wasn’t Supposed To Be Here."
- Featured in/on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," "The Washington Post," "The New York Times,"
"NBC News," "Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell," "FOX News" and more.
- Helped raise over $1.3 million for The Brooklyn Debate League.
- Served as a respiratory therapist on the frontlines in adult and pediatric intensive
care units at NYU Langone Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Presented at the 9th Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical
Care Societies in Singapore on his research, "Use of High Frequency Percussive Ventilation
in a Pediatric Patient with Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Diffuse
Alveolar Hemorrhage."