Update (2024): Over the past 18 months, my work has shifted to include more domestic issues, including artificial intelligence, behavioral science, mental health, LGBTQ discrimination, veganism, and the return-to-office debate. Clips available on request.
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Joe began his career as a journalist, writing and editing a weekly newspaper in St. Francisville, LA. Subsequently, he covered local and state politics in Mississippi for The Sun Herald of Biloxi and The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson.
In 1991, he graduated from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government with a Master's in Public Administration.
After an internship on the editorial page of the New York Times, he worked as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. Upon moving to Washington, DC, he became a speechwriter for U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and later the Office of U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. During the latter assignment, he was the lead editor of a groundbreaking report, Science at its Best, Security at its Worst, on security lapses at the nation's nuclear weapons labs.
In 2001, Joe joined the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group in 2001, and he managed a corporate communications team there for five years. At IFC, he led the communications launch for the global Equator Principles, environmental and social standards for project finance lending, as well as the launch of the Doing Business research report.
From 2014-2017, he was a full-time communications consultant for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the development finance arm of the U.S. government.
Since then, Joe has been an independent consultant working with senior leaders at a variety on institutions and companies, ranging from American University to MasterCard to consulting firms in Boston and Accra, Ghana.
Joe is a proud father of two. In his spare time, he writes screenplays and poetry, and he plays guitar and ukulele.