Joy Thomas Moore
Grantee Relations & Media Projects Mgr, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
30 Minutes with Joy Thomas Moore, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Joy Thomas Moore is the Manager of Making Connections Communications and Media Projects for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children and families in the United States. Her primary responsibility is oversight of the Foundation's national network of communications specialists in the Making Connections Initiative. She is also responsible for grant management of the Foundation's media projects, including television and radio programs and documentaries.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 1992, Joy was a freelance television writer and field producer in the New York city area, where she contributed to numerous local and nationally syndicated programs, including ESSENCE: The Television Program, where for five years she was the senior writer for the weekly program. She later served as writer or field producer for the following television productions: Women Into the Nineties, (WNBC, Winter, 1990); America's Black Forum, hosted by Julian Bond, (1990-1992); and the critically acclaimed eight-part documentary series, Images & Realities: African American Men and its sequels, The African American Family (1992-1993) African American Women (1993), and as senior writer for African American Children (1994).

Prior to her work in television, Joy served in a variety of editorial positions at WMAL-AM radio, the ABC-owned and operated station in Washington, D.C. Her awards include a Edward R. Murrow and George Foster Peabody Awards for Public Service for the 1972 documentary Suffer the Little Children, a multi-part radio series on sexually abused children; a No Greater Love Foundation award for radio documentary on the plight of children of Vietnam veterans in 1973; The Clarion Award for Public Service; and the Chesapeake Associated Press award for radio documentary excellence for a series on women caught in the cycle of alcohol abuse. During the period between 1974 and 1977, Joy also served as an adjunct professor in the Journalism Department at Howard University.

Joy earned both her B.A. and M.A. in Broadcast Journalism at the American University in Washington, D.C.