Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist at the Bay City News Foundation covering Legal Affairs and writing long form investigative stories. He is also a social and political cartoonist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe worked on the Metro desk at the L.A. Times as an Intern in 2019, and earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020.