Joe Armstrong
New York, NY
Joe Armstrong was born in Fort Worth, raised in Abilene, and earned a B.A. in journalism at Trinity University and a J.D. degree from The University of Texas School of Law.
Joe has been in the publishing business for 35 years and published ten magazines, including New York, Rolling Stone, New West, Saveur, and Civilization; he was also a media advisor to Time, Random House, Doubleday, American Express Publishing, Hearst, Gannett, and USA Today, and to John F. Kennedy Jr. and his political magazine, George.
Now on an unpaid sabbatical from ABC NEWS where he worked for three years with Peter Jennings and then with Diane Sawyer, Joe has devoted the past few years to volunteer work with Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with life-threatening illnesses, the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, and building a chapel in an impoverished region of Cuba.
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Director Thomas F. Staley discusses the importance of philanthropy at the Ransom Center.
