Since 2002

Joseph Anthony Reyna (JoeCat®) is a legal systems architect, musician, and nonprofit director who builds tools that force institutions to document what they usually overlook. Whether he’s working in law, technology, housing, or research, his focus stays the same: turning missing records into evidence that can’t be ignored.
 

He comes from a South Texas family whose history rarely appeared in official archives, and he experienced the same pattern firsthand when his 2012 track “Where the Party At Pt. 2” went viral overseas while platforms erased his name from the credits. That loss shaped everything that followed. His published work — covering housing injustice, student hunger, cybernetic rights, prison reform, AI ethics, and urban planning — all traces back to one problem: systems fail in predictable ways when they’re asked to remember the people inside them.
 

His work starts from a simple fact: institutional silence is standard behavior. Reyna designs systems that convert that silence into usable data — turning delay, denial, and omission into evidence instead of dead ends.
 

Through Dreams Over Dollars™ (501(c)(3)), he develops practical models that strengthen cities and restore visibility, from modular housing for vulnerable residents to public-space designs that reclaim underused land, along with tools that help communities track how institutions handle their data, rights, and history.
 

His legal filings span multiple industries not because he’s chasing breadth, but because the same structural failure repeats across them. Each case shows how institutions behave when asked to produce records they would rather bury. For Reyna, law isn’t spectacle — it’s architecture. A method for making truth durable.
 

He isn’t chasing the last word; he’s building the first record — the one that prevents people from disappearing.