Joan managed and oversaw the archival process for the Foundation and assisted the Operations team in communication efforts and legacy projects. She joined the Foundation in 2023 as its Archives and Communications Fellow and became the Communications and Archives Associate in 2023. 

Joan has worked for over seven years in the nonprofit sector, collaborating with development and operation teams. Her previous experience includes clinical research and grant program development and management for the Patient Access Network Foundation and library services at Evidera (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as an intern for the medical library team. 

Joan is a digital archivist and a licensed pharmacist. She received her Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) degree from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) with a concentration in digital curation and her Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) from Shenandoah University.