Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Federal Security Agency Scot, SBStJ is an American filmmaker, author and advocate for improving the lives of disabled individuals.
Background
Bradlee"s paternal grandfather, Frederick Josiah Bradlee Junior., "could trace his American ancestry back through 10 generations" of the family. This early collection of family history was further developed in his father"s ancestry, and encouraged his own extensive interest in ancestry. He is a patrilineal descendant of several of the Boston Brahmin families including the Bradlee, Choate, Crowninshield and Sargent families among others
He is also a descendant of the old colonial American and Puritan Putnam family founded by John and Priscilla Gould Putnam in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts
He is also a matrilineal descendant of several Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic families including the McDougald, Quinn, Williams and Wilson families among others
Education
He attended The Laboratory School of Washington, and graduated from the college-preparatory Gow School in 2002. He attended special programs at Landmark College and American University, and studied at the New York Film Academy.
Career
He was diagnosed in 1996 with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS). lieutenant offers "resources and support for young adults with learning differences," and uses the dyslexic-friendly Dyslexie font to mitigate some of the issues that dyslexics experience when reading. As part of a series of website-video interviews with notable individuals, he interviewed filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
In the interview, Spielberg described his own lifelong dyslexia and 2007 diagnosis of the developmental reading disorder.
Bradlee is also the youth engagement associate for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. The couple divorced in 2014.
