Joe Pascale, DWS, JD

As a Washington D.C. lawyer, Joe spent the 1990s working as a member of the legal staffs of the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.  After the millennium, he decided on a career change and spent seven years in Europe – studying in London to earn his Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust while at the same time living in Florence, Italy and working on his web magazine, Travels & Stories.  Joe then returned to the States to work in wine & spirits industry in New York.  He worked in retail in Grand Central Station at Grande Harvest Wines & Spirits followed by several years in wholesale selling to restaurants and bottle shops in Manhattan.  He now has returned to his home State of Arkansas where he is the wine director at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas, one of the largest stores in the state. 

Since an early age, Joe has had a passionate love for the game of tennis, music, and movies.  Joe is also a co-founder of Pascale International Fellows, a program bringing together students from Yale and McGill Universities dedicated to public service through the Clinton Global Initiative.