Starlight Public Affairs is an homage to the strong and brave men and women who came before me.

Starlight – A Guiding Light

In the mid 1930’s, Adam Joseph founded Star Light Baptist Church in rural Plaissance, Louisiana and served as its pastor for more than 50 years.  Adam and his wife Julia raised their two sons, John and James, in the church with parishioners largely composed of extended Joseph family members and close friends who worked on the surrounding farms or as laborers in the nearby town of Opelousas.

Star Light served as a spiritual refuge during the height of the Jim Crow South and ensuing Civil Rights movements of the 1960s, providing a guiding light of hope. That same light and moral compass was instilled in the Joseph brothers who used education to rise from relative poverty and transcend the endemic racism of the times. John became a teacher and community leader before serving as the first African American mayor of Opelousas – the town where he once was not allowed to use the public swimming pool or sit in the main floor of the movie theater - before launching his own business.  James – my father – became an educator, a civil rights icon and community organizer, an executive of a Fortune 500 company, a philanthropist and later served as the first U.S. Ambassador to South Africa to present his papers to President Nelson Mandela.

Starlight Public Affairs is an homage to the strong and brave men and women who came before me. Star Light provided a guiding light to my family who literally constructed the church by hand and heart. In that same spirit, I seek to build a business that serves as a guiding light to help my clients navigate the challenges they may face while staying true to their moral compass.