At LIFT, Josh is responsible for providing strategic, development, and programmatic leadership for LIFT-Philadelphia’s regional operations. In addition, as a member of LIFT’s national team, Josh provides support in national communications and performance management efforts.
Josh LIFTs because, as the son of a clergyman and a social worker, Josh was surrounded by extraordinary role models who demonstrated the value and meaning of service. His understanding of the transformative nature of service came during his time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa, where his two years of service allowed him to engage and learn from community members in ways that profoundly and positively affected his career path. While in Mali, Josh developed and implemented a successful model for a community-based women's savings and credit cooperative project and well as designed an after-school program for Malian children. Prior to starting with LIFT in 2008, Josh had the opportunity to return to West Africa as the Associate Director for the Peace Corps in Guinea, where he built partnerships with Guinean nonprofit organizations and supported the efforts of Small Enterprise Development Volunteers throughout the country. Before leaving for Guinea, Josh was the Director of Community Outreach with the SHARE Food Program, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit food distribution network serving families throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
Josh holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Masters degree in Intercultural Management from the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT. Josh lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two young and adorable sons.
