Currently she has developed an on-line Digital Photography course for Virginia Tech and every spring since 2001 she has taught history of photography on line for College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. Educated at Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design, specializing in black and white photography, darkroom master printer and studio work along with focusing on chemical manipulations called Chromoskedasic, she received her MFA in 1995. Joy has private collectors of her work in Europe and the USA. She has had solo and group show and collaborated with the DARC group fro the grand opening of the Taubman Museum in Ronoake, Virginia as well as participated in Singing Darwin at Virginia Tech.