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Joshuah Marshall is a highly qualified professional with over 15 years’ experience in leadership roles within the nonprofit, government, and philanthropic sectors. He brings a breadth of knowledge of how change is made on federal, state, local, and tribal levels. Throughout his career, he has worked with thought leaders in government and nonprofit sector on advancing social, economic, racial, gender, and LGTBQ2S equity in the United States—with a particular focus on policy impacting Native Americans. His leadership experience spans oversight of multibillion-dollar infrastructure investments to federal rulemaking to community policy analysis and public affairs campaigns. He is skilled in program management, design, operations, technical assistance. He has designed and managed millions of dollars in federal and private funds and is skilled in leading teams and working effectively with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, and particularly with underserved and marginalized communities.

Josh brings extensive knowledge in managing and improving federal-tribal relations and experience dedicated to the analysis, development, and implementation of federal policy related to tribal governments. He is Northern Arapaho and was born and raised on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. 

Josh served at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a national recognized nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies for low- and moderate-income families and people. He was a senior policy analyst and then senior manager for strategic projects and initiatives. While at the Center he focused on state fiscal policy, anti-poverty programs, racial equity and tax policy, and tribal-state policy. This included driving key initiatives with the State Priorities Partnership, a network of 43-state based progressive tax and budget think tanks the Center coordinates, to integrate racial equity and pro-tribal sovereignty frameworks into the network’s policy and advocacy work. 

Josh previously worked at the Administration for Children & Families, a division of the HHS, first for the Administration for Native Americans and then the Tribal Home Visiting program in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco 07-09), he has a BA in English and philosophy and an MPA.

 

Most recently, Josh served as the senior advisor to the director of the Indian Health Service. The IHS, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the principal federal health care advocate and provider for American Indians and Alaska Natives. As senior advisor, he is responsible for advising the IHS director on a variety of special analyses and high-level health policy matters, including implementation of strategic initiatives and activities.

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