Joseph Green is a professional storyteller, educator, narrative disruptor, one-half of the music and healing project For Our Fathers, and a person in sustained recovery. In his 20-year career, he has facilitated over 5,000 workshops for people ranging from school-aged children to working adults on various topics, including substance abuse, recovery, and mental health. Joseph has traveled the country to work with youth and adults and has keynote presentations for organizations such as the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Google, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, SAMSHA, and the White House ONDCP. In 2021, he was 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. His poetry and personal story are part of the Start For Hope campaign, started in 2024 and sponsored by the Center for Disease Control and the Ad Council.
Joseph has created and facilitated numerous programs for youth across the country, including through his role at the Mentor Foundation USA, where he oversaw the national Drug-Free Slogan Campaign sponsored by H&M, the Shattering the Myths Youth Drug Prevention Rally, and created the ‘Living the Example’ Peer-to-Peerprevention and youth leadership program. Joseph partnered with Imagination Stage to co-create Voices Beyond Bars, a program that teaches social-emotional learning to incarcerated youth between 18-24 through creative writing, spoken word, and playwriting. While partnering with Imagination Stage, Joseph co-created the Youth and Police Partnership Program, where officers and youth use acting, improv, and visual art to begin conversations around themes relevant to their lives and communities.
As the CEO of LMSvoice, Joseph co-created and teaches the value-centered method of storytelling, Narrative Disruption, which has empowered hundreds of participants to disrupt harmful narratives about themselves and others. Through LMSvoice, Joseph has created and facilitated training programs with The Recovery Advocacy Project, Mobilze Recovery, FSG’s Talent Rewire, Faces and Voices of Recovery, Rise Together Youth Programs, SAMHSA’s Office of Prevention, Dr. Bronners, Community Catalyst, Walmart, and R1 Learning.