On Youth Philanthropy: 

Joy served as a founder and later a consultant for A Legacy of Giving, www.alegacyofgiving.org. She made multi-media presentations at over 40 public and private schools on issues of poverty and water scarcity in preparation for students to engage in philanthropic fund raising to meet local and global needs.

On Arts Education:

As a consultant for MindPOP, www.mindpop.org, Joy assisted in preparing reports and documents making the case for the importance and benefits of sequential arts instruction, as well as the use of creative learning in the classroom. MindPOP is supported by the Kennedy Center Any Given Child Initiative, a partnership among Austin ISD, MindPOP, the City of Austin and over 40 arts and cultural organizations dedicated to student success through an arts-rich education. 

One of those cultural organizations is ZACH Theatre, www.ZACHTheatre.org, where Joy is Board President. ZACH has a robust and targeted theatre arts education program and offers theatre classes and camps, college bound training and professional development for classroom teachers. ZACH produces theatre for young audiences using professional actors as well as young actors in training. Over 20,000 children, many from low income families, come to ZACH every year during the school day to see live, professional theatre.