Until September 2012, Denise Tomasini-Joshi was a legal officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. Tomasini-Joshi is a 1999 graduate of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a 1998 graduate of Columbia University School of Law.
In her previous post, she served as a senior policy analyst with the Council of State Government’s Criminal Justice Division, a bipartisan forum, where she was in charge of the Mental Health Courts project. Prior to CSG Denise worked as an attorney at the Columbia University/Goddard-Riverside, Tenant Assistance Project, and at MFY Legal Service’s Mental Health Law Project.