Joe is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked as a state prosecutor in Massachusetts, served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic and worked as a research assistant for the UN Millennium Development Goals Secretariat in New York. Joe holds a bachelors degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard. He is married to Lauren Kennedy, a health policy expert, and together they have two young children.