Joy S. Johnson is co-chair of the Get Smart Schools board of directors. A full-time community volunteer, she is also chair of The Children’s Hospital Foundation and immediate past chair of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado.

In addition to her position on the Get Smart Schools board, Johnson serves on the boards of Urban Peak/The Spot, the Denver Art Museum Foundation, Newborn Hope and Northstar Investment Advisors. She is also on the human services advisory granting committee of the Denver Foundation and the child and family services granting committee of the Rose Community Foundation. Johnson is involved with several investment committees in the Denver community, including those of The Children’s Hospital, Kent Denver School, The Denver Foundation and The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. She has chaired numerous fundraising events and campaigns and participates on the development committees of many other nonprofit organizations. She is also the current co-chair of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s Power the Change Endowment Campaign.

She has worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and as an institutional sales trader and vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a New York investment banking firm.  Johnson is an honors graduate of Colgate University and earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.