About

Joseph S. Miller is Policy Counsel at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Media and Technology Institute and a Fellow with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. He focuses on telecommunications, internet, and new media law and policy. He began his career in radio programming at Emmis Broadcasting’s Hot 97, and advertising sales at Clear Channel’s WKTU-FM, The New York Times’ WQXR-FM, and CBS Television in New York City. He is also a trained musician. Prior to college, he attended the Mannes Conservatory Preparatory School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts, popularized by the “Fame” television show, film, and Broadway musical. Joe is a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, at which he earned a B.S. in Mass Communications, with Concentration in Music and a Minor in Business Administration. At SUNY, he served as a Resident Advisor, Jazz Ensemble Pianist, Program Director of WPLT college radio, and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. While attending New York Law School, he edited its Media Law & Policy journal. He served as a Law Student Associate at Sun Microsystems. Upon obtaining his Juris Doctor, he went to work for Pace University, where he served as the Assistant Director of Pace’s business incubator program for early-stage companies in the New York Economic Development Zones of Lower Manhattan and Yonkers, NY.

Joe has been covered in the New York Daily News, Westchester County Business Journal, Washington City Paper, the American Lawyer, and in the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Diversity & the Bar publication for his work on promoting diversity in the legal profession.

Originally from Manhattan, New York’s Upper West Side, he is admitted to the New York State Bar. He currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.