Josh is an Emmy-winning video journalist, digital strategist, climate activist, and comedian-ist. In 2018, Josh started [GOOD POLITICAL] to work with friends on things that matter, producing nearly 100 digital ads for the Biden Harris campaign, helping the Parkland students with digital communications for March For Our Lives, leading the creative launch of Michelle Obama’s initiative, When We All Vote, and as Senior Creative Advisor to Governor Tony Evers defeat of Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
Josh was Senior Creative Advisor for The Democrats and served in the Obama administration with Tom Perez as Director of Digital Strategy for the U.S. Department of Labor. He was also Video Director for the 2016 Democratic National Convention's digital efforts. He directed digital content and outreach at the founding of Tom Steyer’s political organization NextGen Climate(America), where he spent his time shining a spotlight on real people that can't ignore the impacts of climate change.
As an Activist Comedian, Josh spends his time exploring positive, approachable ways to message on important issues, creating Impact Entertainment™️ over pure documentaries. Honing his craft in political satire, this culminated in a pitch to Last Week Tonight that garnered attention of senior staff, and with their encouragement the creation of a late night web series dutifully named “The Liberal Conspiracy.”
Josh now hosts several series, including “U Need To Know This!” with Mashable. He’s performed sketches for Comedy Central, stand up in packed arenas across the country (mostly Wisconsin), and sold out shows everywhere from SF to London (usually where there’s a Packers game). He’s emcees the Summit Series conference and is comedian-in-residence for NeueHouse, hosting a monthly show with diverse, rising stars in the comedy scene.
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Josh is showrunner and host of SPACEDROP (now on Amazon Prime) a weekly web series about how the average person could endure life in the extreme isolation of space. Josh was an analog astronaut on the crew of the first Moonbase simulation at the HI-SEAS habitat in Hawaii.
Josh is showrunner and host of LAST GLIMPSE on Amazon Prime, a travel series celebrating at-risk cultures in a positive, empowering light. The pilot episode takes on rising sea levels in "modern Atlantis" – the picturesque paradise of The Maldives.
In the era before Snapchat, Josh worked for President Obama’s reelection campaign, the Government of Israel, and Charlie Sheen. It is likely the only thing all three have in common. His work shared by National Geographic, The New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Comedy Central, NowThis, Mic, TIME, Rolling Stone, Variety, The Washington Post, @BarackObama, @HillaryClinton – and a lot of other people that tweet better than the sitting President.
Josh is a Truman Fellow, Ordained Minister, Dumpling Influencer, and stand-up comedian who enjoys writing and telling stories, usually not in the third person. To pay for moving costs, Josh naturally went on Wheel of Fortune, and won. He’s the most memorable “Foreground Performer” on the final season of Succession. Josh is an initial member of the “Climate Comedy Cohort” and an advisory board member for the climate change organization, Dayenu, and also likes advocating for unusual constituencies, Oxford commas, taking advantage of New York jazz and Left Coast weather.