About Joe Tevelowitz

Joe Tevelowitz is a 2014 graduate of the NYU School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctorate (JD), after a law school career that included representing clients as part of the NYU School of Law Family Defense Clinic, during his third and final year at NYU Law. From his second year of law school until graduation, Joe also worked as an Associate for the Lexis Nexis Legal Research organization. Joe’s extracurriculars at NYU included serving as a Legal Writing Teaching Assistant, Vice President of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society, Chair of the Sports Law group and organizer of a Sports Law Symposium under that same Society, Elected Class Representative to, and later Social Chair for, the NYU Law Student Bar Association, Recognized Sports Law Negotiation Competitor, NYC High School Student Mentor through The Urban Assembly and President of the Law and Film Society.

Upon graduation from NYU, Joe helped as a trusted friend moved from a large criminal defense firm into his own practice. Joe was then hired as Business Director for Marquee Law Group, APC, in Beverly Hills. Joe would depart Marquee in early 2016 to join the Presidential campaign for Senator Bernie Sanders, serving first as a Field Fellow for Senator Sanders’ campaign during the Iowa Caucuses, before being hired as a Field Organizer for the same campaign and serving as the sole staff member and campaign representative in the Youngstown, Ohio and Southern Maryland regions.

Following “defeats” in each of those states, Joe returned to California, unpaid, and joined by 10 volunteers from his work in Maryland. Together this group, along with other volunteers in and around Riverside County, transformed a vacant home into a fully-operational campaign office for Senator Sanders’ final 2016 stand during the California Primaries. While fully funding this Southern California endeavor on his own, Joe organized a team and an office that outpaced every other official Bernie Sanders for President 2016 Campaign Office in the state, in terms of doors knocked and calls made, on the Saturday before the California Primary. This completely volunteer-created and run office was a leader for and example throughout the state and the campaign.

Following the conclusion of Senator Sanders’ transformative 2016 efforts, Joe continued his dedicated work on campaigns across the country, now joined by his son and ever-growing family at every stop. During the 2016 General Election, Joe returned to Iowa as an Organizer and Campaign Representative for the 10 most rural counties in the state, before working for campaigns and causes in New York, Montana, Nevada and again California, in races at the Congressional, Senate and local levels.

During the pandemic, and following the birth of his daughter, Joe joined Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest as a Community and Government Relations Organizer. During his two years in this role, Joe was the main contact and recruiter for volunteers, supporters and elected officials in Coachella Valley, Hemet and the Temecula Valley region. Joe capably organized a 150-person candlelight vigil in Coachella, and later traveled to Indiana, with Planned Parenthood and in response to devastating and detrimental anti-abortion decisions.

Joe has thus far been part of two campaign “victories” — first as Regional Director for Voter Protection with the successful campaign to re-elect Montana Senator Jon Tester in 2018, and then as part of Planned Parenthood in support of Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2021 No on Recall efforts. Despite other “losses,” and with an emphasis on people over politics, movement over metrics, and an unyielding focus on quality over quantity, Joe proudly recruited, trained, and led individuals across the country in finding roles, positions, and purpose.

Joe returned to the legal field in 2023 as Demand/Complaint Writer and Litigation Advisor for Miracle Mile Law Group, based out of Los Angeles. At Miracle Mile Law, Joe listened to clients, crafted their stories in pursuit of compensation for wrongful termination or forced resignation, and aided trial preparation alongside Miracle Mile Law’s Founder and Lead Litigator, helping to craft the opening statement for the firm’s first trial victory.

A 2009 magna cum laude graduate of UC San Diego, with a degree in Political Science and Communications, Joe succeeded academically, while maintaining as many as four paying jobs at one time — primarily in the athletics information, not-for-profit entertainment event planning, and academic editing fields. Joe also covered UCSD Men’s Basketball and rose to the level of Senior Sports Writer and acclaimed Sports Columnist (Cup O’ Joe) for the UCSD Guardian. A brother of the Jewish-founded Alpha Epsilon Pi organization, Joe was selected as Brotherhood Chair and Chief Convention Delegate for UCSD’s AEPi, and honored by his brothers with the prestigious Proud To Be A Pi Award in his final collegiate year.

An equally proud Type 1 Diabetic since 1996, Joe attended a camp for kids with diabetes, beginning in 1997. Joe grew from Camper to Counselor in Training, Dishwasher, Counselor (for eight straight sessions across two summers), Sports Director, Mentor Counselor, and eventually Program Director, at the age of 21. Following his recognized hard work and creativity as Program Director in Summer 2007, Joe received the Outstanding Staff Leader of the Year Award for the first time, before becoming the first, and to this day youngest, person to win that highly-respected award for a second time, following his final summer at camp in 2009.