Josh Riley is a fifth-generation upstate New Yorker. Inspired by the challenges his community faced as jobs were shipped overseas, Riley dedicated his career to fighting for working families. He served as counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where he helped craft common-sense gun safety legislation following the Sandy Hook tragedy. In private practice, he championed a federal court push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and defend abortion rights. Riley has also filed bipartisan briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at strengthening America’s immigration system.