2025 Lowenthal Volunteer Service Awardee: Josh Levin

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Josh Levin is a Volunteer Staff Attorney who works with Tzedek DC on a pro bono basis. He is also the 2025 recipient of our Lowenthal Volunteer Service Award, to be formally presented at our 9/29 event, Eat Well, Do Justice!®

Josh Tzedek DC in 2019 after seeing a 2017 Washington Jewish Week article about our founding. His work with us focuses primarily on impact litigation, including federal litigation associated with immigration policy.

Josh also co-leads our efforts on fines and fees reform. Thanks in significant part to these efforts, the DC government no longer enforces the Clean Hands Law against residents applying to obtain or renew a driver’s license while owing over $100 in fines or fees to the District!

Josh retired following a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment & Natural Resources Division as a Senior Trial Attorney representing and advising EPA, DOD, and other federal agencies.

For seven years, Josh was also a member of the Office of Legal Policy’s Judicial Nominations Working Group, screening judicial nominees. He has also worked as an investigative reporter with the U.S Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Josh’s work across his prominent career, including his important work with Tzedek DC, earned him the Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, in 2023.

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About Eat Well, Do Justice!®

Since 2017, Tzedek DC has held a fundraiser each September called Eat Well, Do Justice!®. The event brings together philanthropists and DC’s top culinary minds in support of the organization’s work to safeguard the legal rights and financial health of DC residents with lower incomes, and, in doing so, help close the pervasive justice and wealth gaps and, ultimately, build and strengthen community bridges. Each year, chefs compete with their spins on a food, ingredient, or style of food traditionally eaten in the Jewish community.

The Eat Well, Do Justice!® theme for 2025 is Apples & Honey Throwdown! It will be a meaningful and enjoyable evening, including a delicious array of apple and honey-themed dishes to taste and be voted on by the attendees and the guest judges. 

Confirmed featured guest judges include Reverend Thomas Bowen, who under President Biden led the White House’s faith engagement, and who serves as the Earl L. Harrison Minister of Social Justice at Shiloh Baptist Church in DC; Seth Waxman, WilmerHale Partner, former U.S. Solicitor General, and past recipient of the American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Award; and Chef Daniel Rosen, winner of our 2024 Eat Well, Do Justice!® event! 

In addition, we’ll have live music, including from former Broadway In the Heights cast member Willis White.

Past Eat Well, Do Justice!® events have sold out, so lock in your ticket or sponsorship purchase today!