Joe Steele

As vice president of communications and legislative affairs at LIFT, Joe is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key legislative stakeholders and other policymakers, as well as the media. His work also supports the institute’s sales and marketing teams.

Joe is a veteran communications and public affairs leader with a track record of developing and executing successful plans, strategies and delivering legislative victories, employee engagement and building key stakeholder relationships for Fortune 500 companies, statewide political campaigns, nonprofits and startups.

Over his career, Joe has led the public affairs strategy for a large telecommunications company, managed internal communications for a large financial institution as it transitioned through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and built a Political Action Committee (PAC).

Joe began his career as a reporter for several newspapers across Michigan, before moving to politics to lead the communications for a U.S. Senate campaign and then as a staff member in the Michigan House of Representatives followed by serving as an appointee of the Michigan Secretary of State.

Joe has a B.A. degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University.