Joel Segal, Esq

Joel Segal received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina in 1989. He was the founder and leader of the 2000 Universal Health Care and Global HIV/AIDS civil society movement in America. He was the former senior legislative assistant and speech writer for Rep. John Conyers from 2000-2013; and was one of the lead staffers in Congress working on universal health care, homelessness, Global HIV/AIDS, and ending poverty.  Joel was the Staff Director of Rep. Conyer’s Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force and Out of Poverty Caucus. Joel recruited rock star Bono to address Global HIV/AIDS, and was the cofounder of the Global AIDS Alliance, and was the senior technical consultant to Michael Moore’s movie SICKO.  Along with Harvey Wasserman, is publishing a book on how the African American community in Georgia utilized “relational organizing” in order to dramatically increase the black vote in the 2020 federal elections which was responsible for turning Georgia blue.   Joel is the National Environmental Chair for the League of United Latin American Citizens, ( LULAC).

Joel co-authored the first bill ever introduced in Congress to end involuntary homelessness “The Bring America Home Act.” He also successfully lead efforts in Congress to reduce Resident Physician Work Hours, and co-authored unprecedented federal legislation which was adopted by both the AMA and the ACGME. Joel lead efforts in Congress to prevent the closing of the Detroit Medical Center, the largest Trauma 1 Public Hospital in Detroit from going bankrupt, by forging a bi-partisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans, which got $40 million dollars from the George W. Bush Administration to keep the hospital open. He also was the co-author of the Katrina Relief Act, and lead efforts in Congress to pass the bill, by working closely with the staff of then House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. 

Joel has been the Consultant to our Team from its inception crafting CALTCHA.