Joel is working as a technical adviser for media and information literacy at  IREX, a global development non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. He is part of a team that is testing a citizen media literacy skills-building approach called Learn to Discern. The team first tested Learn to Discern in Ukraine, training librarians in citizen media literacy concepts. Joel is currently testing adaptations of Learn to Discern in Indonesia (online-only messaging) and in Arizona (training rural and tribal librarians).