ABOUT JOSH FRYDAY:
Josh Fryday is currently serving as California’s Chief Service Officer, a cabinet position, and leads service, volunteer, and civic engagement efforts throughout California. Under his leadership, California Volunteers has grown to become the largest service corps in the nation—larger than the entire Peace Corps—providing more than 10,000 paid opportunities for Californians to serve their communities. Josh is a Novato, California native, a husband to public school teacher Mollye, and dad to three energetic boys—Shay, Calvin, and Tam. He has served as mayor of his hometown, he’s a U.S. Navy veteran, a climate leader, and a public servant at heart.
After earning his undergraduate and law degrees at UC Berkeley, Josh volunteered for the United States Navy as a JAG Corps officer. He served overseas in Yokosuka, Japan, where he coordinated humanitarian and disaster relief efforts after the devastating 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. His experience cutting through red tape to deliver urgent aid shaped his approach to government: when people need help, bureaucracy shouldn’t stand in the way.
Josh’s commitment to making California more affordable is personal. Growing up in a working-class family, Josh and his brother lived in 17 different homes before he graduated high school—moving each time a landlord raised the rent. This personal understanding of housing insecurity drives his urgency to address California’s affordability crisis.
Josh attended California public schools from kindergarten all the way through law school, and as a Pell Grant recipient he worked multiple jobs to put himself through college.
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