CDF–Ohio Staff

Joe is CDF's National Coordinator of Youth Leadership and Development.  He is responsible for curriculum development and evaluation of CDF's Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT) program.  Based in his native Cleveland, he also works to expand the CDF Freedom Schools program and recruit YALT participants in Ohio.  Joe is a graduate of Heidelberg University where he majored in Political Science.  He also studied at the Harvard Kennedy School as a Community Fellow.  Prior to his work with CDF, Joe worked at The Education Resources Institute (TERI).  He is a former City Year Corps member who led the effort to hold a Cradle to Prison Pipeline Youth Summit for 150 City Year Corps members in Boston.