Joseph S. Miller, Esq.
Deputy Director and Senior Policy Counsel
Media and Technology Institute

Joseph S. Miller is Deputy Director and Senior Policy Counsel of the Media and Technology Institute (MTI) at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.  His policy work focuses on spectrum, STEM, Internet, and media ownership policy.  He is a leading voice for equal opportunity enforcement, ownership diversity, and broadband adoption.  

Mr. Miller began his career in broadcast advertising sales in New York City at Clear Channel’s WKTU-FM, The New York Times’ WQXR-FM, and CBS Television.  Prior to that, he interned in the programming department at Emmis Broadcasting’s Hot 97, the first radio station in the United States to broadcast an exclusively hip-hop format.  He is a proud graduate of the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, at which he earned a B.S. in Mass Communication, with Concentration in Music and a Minor in Business Administration.  He earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School, at which he served as an editor of its Media Law & Policy Journal.  He served as a Law Student Associate at Sun Microsystems.  Upon graduating from New York Law, he was the Assistant Director of Pace University’s business incubator program for early-stage companies in Lower Manhattan and Yonkers, NY.  

At MTI, Mr. Miller plays a key role in advising MTI’s former Vice President and Director on legislative, regulatory, and market developments, framing the Joint Center's media and technology policy agenda, and raising the Joint Center's media and technology profile.  Mr. Miller co-authored with Drs. Nicol Turner-Lee and Brian Smedley, “Minorities, Mobile Broadband and the Management of Chronic Disease,” which was released in April 2012.  In 2010, he co-authored with Drs. Nicol Turner-Lee, Jon Gant and Ying Li, “National Minority Broadband Adoption: Comparative Trends in Adoption, Acceptance and Use,” a groundbreaking demographic and behavioral study of broadband adoption trends in the United States.   He has spoken on numerous panels addressing media and technology issues in communities of color and written several regulatory filings on behalf of the Joint Center in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and other government agencies.    

Before joining the Joint Center, Mr. Miller was a Fellow with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, where he worked on advertising non-discrimination, media ownership, and equal opportunity issues.  He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, where he serves as a member of the Diveristy Committee, as well as the American Bar Association and the American Society of Association Executives. A native of Manhattan, New York, he attended the acclaimed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts, and is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.  

Mr. Miller is also a Joint Center subject matter expert. Details on his areas of expertise can be viewed here.