About me
Denise Tomasini-Joshi is an advocate whose work has touched upon issues of mental health, health policy, criminal legal reform, women’s rights, economic development, and marginalized populations. She is a former Chief of Staff at the Innocence Project, and previously held a series of progressively senior roles at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where her work focused on combating abusive treatment in healthcare and reducing health inequities in criminalized populations.
Denise has also held posts as Assistant Dean for Public Service at NYU Law School, as Senior Policy Analyst at the Council for State Governments, and as an attorney at MFY Legal Services.
Denise holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School, a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s SIPA, and a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University."
