This article is about activist Joel Segal. For noted NFL agent Joel Segal, see Joel Segal (sports agent)

Joel Segal (sports agent)

Joel Segal is an American sports agent and the president of . Segal has used his law degree and background to become one of the most powerful sports agents in the world. In 2010 Segal was recognized as the 9th Most Powerful Sports Agent in America by Business Insider Law Review. In 2008 Segal was...

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Joel Segal is one of the co-founders and a current board member of the Progressive Democrats of America

Progressive Democrats of America

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. He serves as Chair of the Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force and senior advisor to the Chairman of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary

United States House Committee on the Judiciary

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, Congressman John Conyers

John Conyers

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 of Michigan

Michigan

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. Segal is also the founder of the Free China Movement in the United States, that comprises over thirty Chinese Democracy

Chinese Democracy

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 organizations inside and outside of China

China

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, working for peace and democracy.

Segal's reputation in Washington D.C. is that of a well connected and powerful progressive organizer..