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Joshua Morrison

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  • Comment: In addition to the above, sources that make no mention of Morrison or only brief mentions are not useful. S0091 (talk) 19:53, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
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    What’s in it:
    Opening: introduces him as co-founder and president of 1Day Sooner, co-founder of Waitlist Zero and founder of the Rikers Debate Project. It links to the existing 1Day Sooner and Waitlist Zero articles.
    Education: Columbia College (2007) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 2010).
    Career:
    Corporate law at Ropes & Gray, and his 2011 kidney donation to a stranger.
    Waitlist Zero (with Thomas Kelly) and the Rikers Debate Project (2016).
    Co-founding 1Day Sooner with Sophie Rose in March 2020, the 38,000+ volunteer sign-ups, and the later hepatitis C and TB work.
    The 2022 Vox “Future Perfect 50” profile, the PLOS ONE paper and the 2024 FAS memo.
    Sources: Columbia College Today, City & State, Sense About Science USA, National Geographic, Marie Claire UK, The Guardian, Vox, PLOS ONE and his FAS bio. Some draft categories are listed at the bottom.
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    Sourcing. I couldn’t open the Vox article myself. The hepatitis C/TB sentence relies on how the existing 1Day Sooner Wikipedia article cites it, so check that it says what we claim. The Columbia College Today piece has no date. Reviewers prefer independent coverage, so more profiles focused on Josh would make the draft stronger.
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    ShedTool (talk) 15:21, 29 October 2026 (UTC)


Joshua Morrison is an American lawyer, serial nonprofit founder, and prominent figure in the Effective Altruism movement.[1] He is presently the President of 1Day Sooner, an organization that advocates for people who volunteer for human challenge trials[2] and works to advocate for reforms that will make it easier, cheaper, and fast to conduct clinical trials.[3] Prior to his involvement with 1Day Sooner, Morrison co-founder of Waitlist Zero, an advocacy group that promotes living kidney donation[4]. He also founded the Rikers Debate Project[5], a debate program for people detained at Rikers Island.

Early Life and Education

Morrison grew up in the suburbs of Boston and attended Saint Sebastian's High School in Needham, MA, graduating in 2003[6]. Morrison then went on to study Political Science at Columbia College, graduating in 2007. While at Columbia, Morrison competed on the college's debate team and served as President of the Political Science Student Society.[7] After Columbia, Morrison went on to receive a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2010, where he also served as editor of the Harvard Law Review.[8][9]

Career

Law and kidney donation advocacy

After law school, Morrison worked as a corporate lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston. In 2011, he donated a kidney to a stranger, profoundly changing the course of his personal and professional life[10][11]. Soon thereafter, he and fellow donor Thomas Kelly co-founded Waitlist Zero[12], a nonprofit that advocates for living kidney donors and works to increase living donation[13]. Morrison eventually left legal practice to work full-time on kidney donation advocacy, including leading efforts to allow for compensation[14] of donors[15][16][17][18][19][20].

Rikers Debate Project

In 2016, Morrison founded the Rikers Debate Project, which runs classes in debate, critical thinking and conflict resolution[21] for people held at Rikers Island[22]. As executive director, he said in 2018 that the program had spread to debate programs in Connecticut and Washington, D.C.[23] In 2023, it was reported that the highlight lauded[24] initiative[25] was nearing collapse due to a shortage of volunteers.[26]

1Day Sooner

In March 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Morrison co-founded 1Day Sooner to advocate for COVID-19 vaccine challenge trials,[27][28] in which healthy volunteers are deliberately exposed to a pathogen in order to speed up vaccine development[29][30]. By October 2020, more than 38,000 people[31] had signed up through the group's website[32] [33] to express interest in taking part in challenge trials. [34]The organization later expanded its advocacy to challenge trials for other diseases[35], including hepatitis C and tuberculosis.[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]

In 2022, Vox profiled Morrison as part of its "Future Perfect 50" list. [46]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (2022-08-08). "The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  2. ↑ "1Day Sooner Team". 1Day Sooner. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  3. ↑ "Clinical Trial Abundance". 1Day Sooner. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  4. ↑ "Our Team". Waitlist Zero. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  5. ↑ "Rikers Debate Project". Rikers Debate Project. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  6. ↑ "Spring 2015 Magazine". Issuu. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  7. ↑ "Teaching Debate — and Confidence — to the Incarcerated". Columbia College Today. 2020-12-01. Archived from the original on 2025-12-07. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  8. ↑ "Volume 122". Harvard Law Review. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  9. ↑ "Josh Morrison". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  10. ↑ Morrison, Joshua (2014). "Kidney donation is a reasonable choice for effective altruists and more should consider it".
  11. ↑ "Altruistic Kidney Donation with Elaine Perlman and Joshua Morrison". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  12. ↑ "Joshua Morrison | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  13. ↑ Morrison, Josh (2016-01-05). "Opinion | It's time to treat organ donors with the respect they deserve". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  14. ↑ Satel, Sally; Morrison, Joshua C.; Jones, Rick K. (2014-06-01). "STATE ORGAN-DONATION INCENTIVES UNDER THE NATIONAL ORGAN TRANSPLANT ACT". Law & Contemporary Problems. 77 (3): 217. ISSN 0023-9186.
  15. ↑ Cook, Philip J.; Krawiec, Kimberly D. (2014). "Foreword: Organs and Inducements". Law and Contemporary Problems. Duke University School of Law. 77 (3): i–vii. ISSN 0023-9186. JSTOR 24244701.
  16. ↑ Satel, Sally (2014). "The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors".
  17. ↑ "Muck Rack | For journalists and public relations". muckrack.com. 2023-11-07. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  18. ↑ Morrison, Joshua (2014). "State Organ Donation Incentives Under the National Organ Transplant Act".
  19. ↑ Morrison, Josh (2016-10-11). "Almost all kidney donors are proud, like me. So why did one negative story go viral?". Vox. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  20. ↑ "Op-Ed: He violated his probation. Now he can't give his child a kidney". Los Angeles Times. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  21. ↑ KalaLea. "The Rikers Debate Project | The New Yorker Radio Hour". WNYC Studios. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  22. ↑ "About 1". Rikers Debate Project. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  23. ↑ Williams, Zach (2018-08-08). "Rikers inmates debate policies including pretrial detention". City & State NY. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  24. ↑ Ramey, Corinne (2016-05-17). "Rikers Inmates Best Columbia Students in Debate". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  25. ↑ Remnick, Noah (2016-10-19). "Debate Course Aims to Help Rikers Inmates Lobby for Their Rights". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  26. ↑ Mellins, Sam. "The Rikers Debate Program Is Slowly Collapsing". New York Focus. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  27. ↑ Akhtar, Muizz (2022-10-20). "Josh Morrison took risks for science, and he thinks you can, too". Vox. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  28. ↑ Reddi, Sumathi (2020). "One Idea for Speeding a Coronavirus Vaccine: Deliberately Infecting People" (PDF).
  29. ↑ "'1 Day Sooner' gathers volunteers for human challenge trials". 2020.
  30. ↑ Crane, Brent; Crane, Brent (2025-01-28). "Would You Get Sick in the Name of Science?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  31. ↑ magazine, Ewen Callaway, Nature. "Hundreds of People Volunteer to Be Infected with Coronavirus". Scientific American. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  32. ↑ Writer, Seren MorrisFreelance SEO (2020-04-24). "1 Day Sooner: Scientists Seek Volunteers for Coronavirus Vaccine Tests". Newsweek. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  33. ↑ "Curing Coronavirus: Volunteers want to be injected with COVID-19 to help find vaccine". ABC7 San Francisco. 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  34. ↑ "Controversial 'human challenge' trials for COVID-19 vaccines gain support". www.science.org. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  35. ↑ Morrison, Joshua (2025). "Why I Chose to Get E. Coli". MedPage Today.
  36. ↑ Akhtar, Muizz (October 20, 2022). "Josh Morrison took risks for science, and he thinks you can, too". Vox.
  37. ↑ Morrison, Josh (2022-02-09). "Covid-19 challenge trial results are (finally) in: Here's what should happen next". STAT. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  38. ↑ Callaway, Ewen (2023-11-28). "These volunteers want to be infected with disease to aid research — will their altruism help?". Nature. Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-03583-5. PMID 38017067 Check |pmid= value (help).
  39. ↑ Nationwide, Charlotte Scott. "Nearly 37,000 People Have Signed Up To Be Part of a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial". ny1.com. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  40. ↑ Sooner, 1Day. "1Day Sooner Petition To Prepare COVID-19 Human Challenge Trial Facilities Gains Support Of Lord, Nobel Laureate, Oxford Professor Of Medical Ethics". www.prnewswire.co.uk. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  41. ↑ "Congress Can Improve our Pandemic Preparedness | IFP". 2024-01-18. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  42. ↑ Alter, Harvey J.; Barnes, Eleanor; Biondi, Mia J.; Cox, Andrea L.; Eberts, Jake D.; Feld, Jordan J.; Liang, T. Jake; Morrison, Josh; Rice, Charles M.; Shoukry, Naglaa H.; Thomas, David L.; Van Gennip, Jennifer; Weijer, Charles; other signatories (November 2023). "Joint statement in support of hepatitis C human challenge studies". The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 8 (11): 967–969. doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00314-X. ISSN 2468-1253. PMC 12931952 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 37742699 Check |pmid= value (help).
  43. ↑ Morrison, Josh (2020-05-28). "Challenge trials can speed development of a Covid-19 vaccine. Planning for them needs to start now". STAT. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  44. ↑ Welch, Vanessa (2020-05-27). "Local volunteers agree to be injected with coronavirus to speed up vaccine timeline". Boston 25 News. Retrieved 2026-10-30.
  45. ↑ Więcek, Witold; Ahuja, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Esha; Kremer, Michael; Simoes Gomes, Alexandre; Snyder, Christopher M.; Tabarrok, Alex; Tan, Brandon Joel (2022-02-22). "Testing fractional doses of COVID-19 vaccines". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (8). Bibcode:2022PNAS..11916932W. doi:10.1073/pnas.2116932119. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8872706 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 35131899 Check |pmid= value (help). Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  46. ↑ Akhtar, Muizz (2022-10-20). "Josh Morrison took risks for science, and he thinks you can, too". Vox. Retrieved 2026-10-30.

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