Joseph Kowalsky
Joseph "Joe" Kowalsky (born c. 1965)[1] is an American financial consultant, cryonicist and former attorney.[2] As of 2024, he is a board member and assistant secretary of the Cryonics Institute (CI).[3] He was the vice president of CI from 2001 to 2003.[2] He is an organizer of the Cryoprize, an initiative encouraging organ transplantation research.[4][5]
Life and career
Kowalsky was born and raised in the Detroit area.[2] Both of his parents are teachers.[2] He recalls that he first became aware of cryonics when a seventh grade science teacher brought some cryonics material to class.[2] He was hooked: for the next fifteen years he kept abreast of the movement, eventually becoming an associate member of the Immortalist Society.[2]
He went to Wayne State University on a full merit scholarship.[2] During this time he worked part time in a Detroit pawnshop, and then became founder and president of a small long distance phone company.[2] He spent one semester as a visiting student at Columbia University, and graduated (magna cum laude) with a BA in economics.[2] He then went to the University of Michigan Law School, and graduated in 1991, subsequently moving to the Washington, D.C. area, where he became a member of the Maryland and Washington D.C. Bar Associations.[2]
Kowalsky spent the next year in working first for senator Carl Levin, then working on Paul Tsongas' presidential campaign, and finally on the Clinton Presidential Transition Team.[2] Afterwards he spent two months in Australia and New Zealand, doing volunteer work.[2]
Returning to Michigan, he worked on the Senate Primary Campaign of former Congressman Bill Brodhead, and then on the Senate campaign of Senator Spencer Abraham.[2] With the assistance and encouragement of Congressman Brodhead, he formed his own law practice in 1994 in the Detroit area, and did a good deal more pro-bono work than he would recommend to anyone else.[2] After a few years, he set up the nonprofit corporation Tomorrow, Inc., to do pro-bono legal work.[2]
In 1999, he left the law field to become a financial consultant.[2] While assisting CI in legal work related to a preservation when he was a practicing attorney, he decided to finally "get his paper work in order", as Robert Ettinger said, joining CI, and being elected board member in short order.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Life after death: Take a glimpse into the world of cryonics. NuNu Japaridze. Fox News Channel. June 25, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024
- ↑ 2,00 2,01 2,02 2,03 2,04 2,05 2,06 2,07 2,08 2,09 2,10 2,11 2,12 2,13 2,14 2,15 2,16 Joseph Kowalsky. cryonics.org
- ↑ Directors & Officers. cryonics.org. Retrieved July 9, 2024
- ↑ Joseph Kowalsky – On Faith and Cryonics. cryonicsunderground.com
- ↑ The Cryoprize. cryoprize.com
External links
- YouTube: 2015 2bAHEAD Think Tank! Conference: Cryonics
- YouTube: Cryonics Symposium International at the Church of Perpetual Life 2019 (Kowalsky's speech at 21:39)
- Joseph Kowalsky – On Faith and Cryonics. Cryonics Underground discussion (2021)