Joie Ha (Jo-EE)

Biographical information

• • Joie Ha (she/they) is the daughter of refugees and has been an organizer for minority communities in Colorado for over 15 years. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Development Practice, focusing on holistic mental health treatment for Vietnamese refugees. Joie has served in Malaysia as a Community Development Officer and in Cambodia as a researcher regarding how hip-hop can create fictive kin for youth. Joie currently serves as Executive Director for Colorado Asian Pacific United, which works to unearth, elevate, and preserve little known Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) stories, and is on path to opening the first AANHPI history and culture museum in the Rocky Mountain region. She is also founder of CORE: Community Organizing for Radical Empathy, a consulting firm that also doubles as a community organizing group. Overall, her current work focuses on global solidarity, social justice, and the uncovering of suppressed narratives.