Languages: English and Spanish
Location of Residence: South Florida
Most Inspiring Moment with Project Béisbol: Project Béisbol is unique in its mission of bringing baseball and softball to underserved youth in Latin America to educate and develop tomorrow’s leaders and build positive social change across our hemisphere, all while helping to grow these two great pastimes.
Start Date: March 2026
Background & Experience
John is on faculty in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, where he earned a Ph.D. He’s taught seminars on U.S. Presidential Power and Political and Legal Influences on Federal Agencies. John has been on faculty at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he taught The Politics of Policymaking in ‘Advanced’ Democracies in the M.P.A. program.
John is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Virginia Engineering Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the American Battlefield Trust. He is on the Board of Directors of the Rutgers University Foundation and is an emeritus member of the Advisory Council to the Dean of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
John practiced law in Manhattan, focusing on venture capital and mergers and acquisitions. He was legal counsel to the Governor of New Jersey and served as a judicial law clerk on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
John was a member of the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights for nine years. He served on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s Better Government Transition Team, and was appointed to the Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
In addition to his Ph.D. from Columbia, John earned a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and an M.P.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.