A longtime communications professional, Joe was most recently a consultant supporting the launch of Seeding Justice’s Oregon Community Climate Investment Fund, strategic planning and mascot change at Lewis & Clark College, and development at Yale Divinity School.

Joe grew up in the Lehigh Valley—not too far from Philadelphia (or NYC) but a world apart—on land that had previously been farmed by his grandfather and kin. The first in his family to go to college, Joe attended school in North Carolina and worked for Duke University Press in editorial and marketing roles following graduation. In 2000, he moved to Oregon to be near his spouse’s family.

In 2001, after the briefest of stints in law school, Joe joined the communications team at Lewis & Clark, where he later headed up the shop and was a member of the executive council for seven years.

Today, if Joe is not working at the Center for Social Justice or in his home office, you might find him on a local trail, deep in a book, or visiting family in Alaska, Arizona, New Jersey, or Washington.