Joy studied Theatre Directing at The Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and is now a theater director based in Dublin. In February 2024, she will direct a play by CN Smith, called Spear, at Corrib Theatre in Portland, OR. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, she studied Social Anthropology and Music. A director, actress, and musician, she uses the arts to bring attention to social justice issues. She served as Co-President of BlackCAST, where she organized the annual Black Playwright's Festival and developed art that foregrounds Black dramatists and theater-makers. Joy revamped KeyChange, the acapella group focused on performing music from the African Diaspora, serving as President in the group's first returning year. As Inclusivity Chair of the Harvard Black Student Association, she led dialogues within the Black student community at Harvard and partnered with other campus groups for students of color to promote greater visibility on campus. She also planned community outreach initiatives to connect with Black high school and middle school students in the greater Boston area. For her senior thesis, she studied GoGo music and its activism against gentrification and systematic disenfranchisement in Washington, DC. During COVID, she directed several plays on Zoom, including a successful production of God of Carnage and Romeo & Juliet. Joy finds that her experience as a Black woman from the South is regularly affected and dependent upon a global history of colonialism, slavery, and systematic disenfranchisement. She sees a similarity with British colonialism's impact on Ireland.