Prior to joining the Wren Collective, Josh was a long-time public defender in New York and Louisiana, handling a wide variety of criminal cases at the trial, appellate, and post-conviction stages. Most recently, Josh was the Deputy Director of the Capital Appeals Project, a non-profit capital defense organization that represents clients facing execution in all phases of litigation. Josh began at CAP managing the office’s Miller/Montgomery cases, where he represented clients arrested as children who were facing life without parole sentences. He also provided strategic litigation advice and appellate assistance to public defenders throughout Louisiana.
Prior to working at CAP, Josh was a Supervising Trial Attorney and Veterans’ Court Specialist at the Bronx Defenders and worked in the Felony Trials Division of Orleans Public Defenders. Josh received his J.D. from New York University and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.