Joe is a secondee who is currently a second-year associate at Covington & Burling. He is a 2011 graduate of Ursinus College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Social-Cultural Anthropology and Classics. Immediately after graduation, Joe enlisted in the U.S. Military where he earned his Green Beret and was assigned to 10th Special Forces Group. During his time in the Special Forces, Joe deployed widely throughout the world with his final deployment to Ukraine in 2016. While in the military, Joe graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs with an MBA in International Business and Innovation Management. Upon leaving the military in 2017, Joe received a scholarship to attend the London School of Economics and Political Science to pursue a joint degree in international relations and international history. In the summer of 2018, he finished his master’s dissertation which focused on the United States’ and United Kingdom’s perception of the Soviet Union in the post-World War Two economic order. In 2021, Joe graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law school. During law school, Joe externed with the House Financial Services Committee and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.