Joe Belvedere

Joe is a decorated and honorably discharged service-connected disabled combat veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve. Professionally, Mr. Belvedere began his career with eight years military experience in Psychological Operations, graduating from the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina with honors from the Defense Language Institute of Foreign Language Center in Monterrey, California and the U.S. Army Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia before his deployments abroad. Following his time in service, Mr. Belvedere returned overseas to work in support of national agenda with several multinational efforts. He has extensive experience in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa. Mr. Belvedere then returned to the Washington Metropolitan Area to work in support of the intelligence community for nearly a decade, where he applied his knowledge of instructional system design and adult learning with over 3,000 instructional platform hours, to over 25,000 personnel trained and deployed, and contributed to high-level doctrine developed and written for numerous United States agencies and host-nation governments. Mr. Belvedere turned his attention to his local community and served as an ambassador of and liaison for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs before proudly accepting a position with United Way of Central Maryland as a Case Manager and Veteran Mentor Coordinator for the Anne Arundel County Veterans Treatment Court.