About Joy Ogbonnaya, MA

Joy Ogbonnaya is the Operations Coordinator at the Scattergood Foundation. Joy is an educator and nonprofit practitioner that is passionate about the wellbeing of children and women. She founded To’Kallos Life Academy, a capacity building and life enhancement organization that serves girls and women in Nigeria. Joy led Joytoria Schools, a social enterprise providing low cost education to children from low income and vulnerable backgrounds and subsequently began Teach to Lead, a nonprofit geared towards nurturing Nigerian teachers as leaders both inside and outside the classroom. Joy has a degree in Guidance and Counseling from Olabisi Onabanjo University, a certificate in Social Sector Management from Pan-Atlantic University’s Enterprise Development Centre, and a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University.  Joy was a 2015 Africa-America Institute Transformational Leadership Scholar and is an alumna of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (Regional Leadership Program).