About Joi
I’ve spent more than two decades helping young people, families, organizations, and communities navigate opportunity, build meaningful connections, and move ideas into action.
My career has taken me across education, youth development, school counseling, community engagement, program leadership, volunteer engagement, and corporate partnerships. While the roles have varied, the thread connecting them has remained the same: I believe people thrive when they have access to clear information, supportive relationships, practical resources, and pathways that help them move forward with confidence.
A Career Built Around Opportunity
Over the years, I’ve worked within education and community-based organizations in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, the New York City Department of Education, the Urban League of Greater Atlanta, and Junior Achievement of Georgia.
Today, I serve as the Director of Volunteer Partnerships and Experience at Junior Achievement of Georgia, where I work with corporate and community partners to create meaningful experiences that connect professionals with students and bring real-world learning into the classroom.
But my work has never been only about volunteers or partnerships.
At the heart of what I do is a passion for helping people make sense of what comes next.
Creating Life After High School
My academic background in Psychology, Child Development and Family Relations, and School Counseling gave me an early foundation for understanding how relationships, environments, education, and access influence the choices young people make. As a former school counselor and longtime youth-development professional, I have seen firsthand how overwhelming the transition after high school can feel—not only for students, but for the families trying to support them.
That experience inspired me to create Life After High School, a practical workbook series designed to help students explore who they are, understand their options, and build a realistic plan for life beyond graduation. Whether a student is considering college, entering the workforce, combining multiple pathways, or still figuring things out, my goal is to provide tools that turn uncertainty into exploration and exploration into a plan.
The Bigger Picture
My broader work follows that same philosophy.
I help individuals, families, educators, community leaders, and organizations create greater clarity around programs, partnerships, pathways, engagement, and the systems that support them. Sometimes that means helping a student think through life after graduation. Sometimes it means developing a resource or program. And sometimes it means helping an organization build stronger processes and partnerships so its work can reach more people effectively.
I value clarity over complexity, practical solutions over theory alone, and resources that people can actually use.
A Little More About Me
Growing up in a military family shaped much of how I approach my work. Moving frequently exposed me to different communities, schools, environments, and ways of life. It taught me how to adapt, listen, build relationships across differences, and recognize that there is rarely only one path forward.
Beyond my professional work, I remain connected to community service through board leadership, civic involvement, youth programming, and volunteerism. I’m also a creative at heart and the founder of LoveJoi Candle, a project rooted in rest, reflection, and creating moments of joy.
I live in Atlanta with my family and continue to be inspired by the places where education, opportunity, community, creativity, and service intersect.
There’s More Than One Way Forward
Whether you’re a student or family thinking about what comes next, an educator looking for practical resources, or an organization working to strengthen programs, partnerships, or engagement, I’d love to connect.
Have something else in mind? Let’s start a conversation.