About
Joe Miller is a media, intellectual property, telecommunications, and civil rights attorney.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, he worked in advertising sales, production, and music research at New York City radio stations, including New York’s legendary WQXR-FM, The Classical Station of the New York Times–the oldest radio station in New York City. He interned at New York’s WKTU, WPLJ, and at WQHT (Hot 97).
He is also a trained musician. Before college, he attended the Mannes Conservatory Preparatory School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts, which was popularized by the “Fame” television show, film, and Broadway musical.
Joe is a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where he earned a B.S. in Mass Communications, with Concentration in Music and 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 served as an editor of that law school’s Media Law & Policy journal. Upon obtaining his Juris Doctor, he worked at CBS-TV in New York, from 2003-2004. He then went to work for Pace University, from 2004-2005, 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 was named a “Mover and Shaker” in the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Diversity & the Bar publication for his work on promoting diversity in the legal profession. He has testified before the New York City Council on behalf of minority radio broadcasters.
Originally from Manhattan, New York, Joe now lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else with whom I am affiliated.
