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Joseph D. Feaster

2111 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 300
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
USA

Phone: 703-812-0200

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URL: www.ncfcs.org

Bio:

Attorney Joseph D. Feaster, Jr. has been practicing law for over 37 years, during which time he has developed an expertise in numerous areas of the law, including corporate, employment and labor, real estate, contract, licensing and zoning, and probate. He recently served as the Interim Administrator of the Town of Stoughton, Massachusetts, with a budget of about $78 million and a population of nearly 27,000. Attorney Feaster previously served as President of the Massachusetts Community and Banking Council; Acting Director of Real Estate for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority; Interim Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority, one of the largest public housing authorities in the country; Assistant Secretary and General Counsel in the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Administration and Finance; Associate Counsel in Prudential Insurance Company’s Northeast Home Office; and as an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board’s Boston Regional Office. His professional affiliations are numerous, as his expertise is sought within the City of Boston and nationally. Such affiliations and service include serving as a mediator for the Suffolk County (MA) Superior Court Mediation program and as a registered lobbyist in Massachusetts. He currently serves on the Executive Council of the Massachusetts AARP, as a board member of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, and as a board member of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, Inc. He has served as President of the Boston Branch NAACP, as Vice Chairman and board member of Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), as Speaker of the House of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), as a board member of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (MLCHC), as a board member of Dimock Community Health Center, which tenure included serving as Board Chairman, and as the Center’s Interim President. Mr. Feaster was also a member of the Commonwealth’s Workforce Investment Board; past President of Northeastern University School of Law Alumni Association; and past Chairman of the Boston Enhanced Enterprise Community Advisory Board.

Mr. Feaster has served as an adjunct professor in Northeastern University’s Master in Public Administration program, as a research associate at the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and as a member and Chairman of the City of Boston’s Board of Appeal.

Attorney Feaster received his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. He has also completed programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate Development and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Feaster is admitted to practice before the courts in Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Speaking Conditions:

  • Accepts international, national, state and regional invitations
  • All-day and half day workshops available, also; plenary session and dinner speaker engagements.
  • Audio/video taping negotiable (agreed to in advance in writing).
  • Contact directly for current speaker fees.
  • Home housing not accepted

Speaker will provide:

  • Expect a speaker contract.
  • Multi-dimensional PowerPoint presentations.
  • New lectures developed upon request
  • Provides presentations at all levels: basic, intermediate and advanced.
  • Projector can be provided under certain circumstances (agreed to in advance in writing). 

Host Committee will provide: 

  • Projector, screen, table, extension cord, microphone, and a captivating audience. 
  • Audio taping is not allowed (unless advance written approval)
  • Honorarium, lodging & transportation (if applicable).

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