Joy has over twenty years of experience providing communications and engagement services to state and local agencies around transit, transportation, placemaking and health. Joy is a skilled communicator and facilitator and has worked on major community planning, transportation, transit and placemaking projects in the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota. Joy is passionate about people and building community and brings her expertise of designing and delivering engagement strategies that are equity-focused, authentic and interactive to all her projects so they can move forward with stakeholder and community consensus. In addition, Joy believes all voices need to be heard and brings valuable experience in engaging with diverse groups and underrepresented communities. Joy lives in Uptown, Minneapolis with her spouse, two teenagers and a grumpy Shih Tzu.