As the daughter of refugees, Joie Ha as always endeavored to do more good for more people. She has been an organizer for minority communities in Colorado for over 15 years. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and a M.A. in Development Practice with a focus on holistic methods of treating mental health for Vietnamese refugees. She has completed development work in Malaysia as a Community Development Officer, and Cambodia as a researcher regarding how hip-hop can create fictive kin for youth. Joie currently runs CORE: Community Organizing for Radical Empathy, a diversity, equity, inclusion firm that doubles as a community organizing agency. She also sits as Vice Chair for Colorado Asian Pacific United, a non-profit dedicated to unearthing and memorializing local Asian American Pacific Islander histories.
