# Joy's Manager Readme

**Health Promotion Specialist  at Black Health Alliance**

## 👋Hi, I'm Joy!

## 🌱My Role

My title is Health Promotion Specialist and I'm happy to be a part of the Health Promotion and Community Engagement team along with Danayi, Deneece and Ameerah! This role is dynamic and allows me to interreact with a variety of health areas and find creative approaches to developing captivating digital health promotion products. 

## ⏰My Hours

Generally, I'm a 9-5 type of person but I'm also really into being up at the crack of dawn so I'm sure there are days where I'll be online at 7am. I'm pretty flexible in my work flow, I take brakes when needed and chile do I need them lol

## 📟 Call me beep me if you wanna reach me

I like convos and huddles on Slack best and probably the quickest way to reach me so there is always an opportunity for us to chat! I also check emails about 1-2 times a day, pls gimme 24-48 hours to respond. In an effort to maintain a good balance between work and life and avoid burning out again, I log off at 5pm (unless we have plans, of course!) ahah I was once told "work is a _part _of your life, not your _whole _life" and I haven't looked back since lol

## 🌶️My Passions

I am motivated by our collective liberation and I believe very deeply in our collective imagination and ability to shape our realities! I can see and imagine different futures where we are all free to just be - especially for the little ones and future generations. So , I want use the skills I have and gain new ones in service of that vision.

## 📚My Background

I have a background in Community Development, History and Political Science and I have most of my experience working directly with communities co-creating programs and services. I also have experience working in boarder systems change and advocacy.  I really enjoy working with people and I love to collab to bring forth our shared visions!

## 🎨 My Style

I work best when I've got all the tea, the more context the better really so send me alla the planning documents, reports and things - I'm into the history of it all and frankly I am nosy! My head is pretty in the clouds so I spend a lot of time thinking, processing and considering all angles before making moves (some would say it's the Libra in me!) but once we've got things figured I'm bout that action. I spend some of work time doing "offline" or analog activities like writing in my notebook or brainstorming through doodles in my sketchbook. I'm a pretty laid back person and I'm always down to lend a hand, so feel free to reach out 😃

My Enneagram style is a social 7 and my secondary type is a 9.

## 🏋️‍♂️ My Strengths

I am a dreamer and creative person and I love the arts: design, cooking, music, painting, cinema - whatever medium really, I'm into it! I enjoy learning new perspectives from others, expanding and shaking up the way things have been done.

## 🦹‍♂️ Challenges

I have a special relationship with the passage of time lol which is to say, it eludes me - it could be neurodivergence of it all - I've recently learned about Time Optimism! 

## 💙 I love

I'm a professional hobby-haver, I love taking a class and learning new skills! I also love cats, cracking jokes and spending time with my dawgs, being in nature, tending to our garden, hanging with my sibling's kids, watching anime, playing video games, dancing, astrology (I'm a Libra sun, Sagittarius moon and rising - what's your big 3?), competitive board game nights, reality competition shows, karaoke and sharing meals with people I love

## ⛔ I don't love

Being rushed or having too much pressure, things that work against the collective good, fresh grapefruit