Joy Hogge PhD

Joy Hogge, has been the executive director of Families as Allies since 2011. She has a seventeen-year-old son who has managed a life threatening medical condition since he was three. Together they have traversed different systems and challenges and learned a lot about self-advocacy and their love and trust for each other along the way. She is particularly interested in policy and system change that supports and engages as many families and recipients of services as possible. She serves on the boards of the National Federation of Families and the Family Run Executive Directors Leadership Association and has received local and national awards for her work.

Before she was a mom, Joy became a licensed psychologist and will be forever grateful to the families who patiently taught her about family-driven care as she did that work. She received her Masters and PhD from Texas A and M and has worked in the field of mental health, with a particular emphasis on program development, policy and advocacy, for 30 years.