Joseph Green is a professional storyteller, award-winning spoken word artist, educator, narrative disruptor, and person in sustained recovery. He advocates for and inspires those overcoming the disease of substance-use disorder through his keynote speeches and workshops. In his 20-year career, he has facilitated over 5000 workshops for people ranging from school-aged children to working adults on a variety of topics, including substance abuse, recovery, and mental health. Joseph has traveled the country to work with youth and adults and has spoken for organizations such as the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Google, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Recovery Advocacy Project Organizing Institute.
He is currently featured in the award winning documentary, Tipping the Pain Scale, a film focused on the systemic failures and possible solutions for those struggling with addiction and our country’s epidemic of pain.
As the Chief Executive Officer of LMSvoice, an educational consulting and production company, Joseph utilizes the art of storytelling and creative writing to empower people to disrupt harmful narratives about themselves and others. See more about him and LMSvoice at https://lmsstorytellers.com/
I witnessed Joseph’s very powerful performance at last month’s SAMHSA convening on their new Office of Recovery and am so pleased we could bring him to our conference this year. See his presentation on Day 2, Thursday September 22nd at 1:45 pm.
Register for the Conference today at www.nyaprs.org!