Joe Pressley
Nonprofit Leader | Coalition Builder | Board Director
Joe Pressley is an organizational leader and coalition builder with a talent for engaging communities, translating strategy to high-impact programs, and evolving organizations, often in high-stakes and public-facing positions. He has dedicated his energy and career to bringing positive social and economic changes to New York’s oppressed and disenfranchised for more than 30 years.
Joe’s leadership record across nonprofits, government sector and public sector includes serving as Executive Director and Community Organizer of the New York AIDS Coalition; as a Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations for Harlem United Community AIDS center; as a senior aid to Councilmember and Council’s Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; and as Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Department of Homelessness where he oversaw the Street Homeless Solutions Division. Joe is a champion of transformative change, represents multi-generational perspectives and embodies inclusive leadership. Joe served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which is the nation’s oldest organization expressly dedicated to serving LGBTQIA+ youth. Currently. Joe is the Vice President for Public Policy and Government Relations at Amida Care, which is the largest Medicaid Special Needs Plan for people living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS in New York State.
For three decades, Joe has worked closely with the HIV/AIDS, African American and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ (LGBTQ+) communities, educating hundreds about political processes and facilitating how various needs and issues are being heard and acted upon. Believing that we should live at intersections and not in silos, Joe seeks to bring seemingly different communities together as a foundation for positive and transformative change.
