About Joy

As a planner, facilitator, mediator, & trainer, Joy’s commitment is to help people find and use their inner power, potential, and passion to make positive changes in their lives, and help people translate individual power into collective action through collaboration. Her passion is about bringing people together to hear and understand each other, to explore differences, and to work together to create solutions that last. Joy employs the skills of radical listening, creating shared understanding, examining the dynamics of privilege and oppression, and facilitating respectful dialogue to create a shift in the processes by which people have conversations about complex issues. Joy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado, Denver.