Josh is a sophomore from Berkeley College, originally from Short Hills, New Jersey. He currently serves as the Academic Policy Director of YCC, in which capacity he has managed over a dozen policy projects, successfully advocated to administrators like Dean Holloway to achieve reforms to Credit/D/Fail and seminar accessibility policy, and worked with the rest of the Executive Board to set the YCC agenda. He also has experience leading a Council and planning events. Last year, Josh served as the President of the Freshman Class Council, where he led the freshman class’s primary representative body and helped plan events such as Freshman Screw and Freshman Olympics.

Beyond experience in student government, Josh is no stranger to advocacy. He served as the Membership Coordinator of the Yale College Democrats, where he recruited members to advocate for in-state tuition for children of undocumented immigrants and juvenile justice reform. He also submitted testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly in 2015 for a bill to establish affirmative consent as the standard on college campuses. And he’s no stranger to service, either. Josh performs volunteer tax assistance through Dwight Hall and mentors New Haven high school students every Friday morning in civic action. You may see Josh giving Admissions tours on Friday afternoons, during which he discusses the need to consider Yale students not just as students at a university, but as residents who should engage with New Haven, as well as the number of books in Sterling (answer: 4 million strong).