Joey VrazelDr. JoEllen Joey Vrazel has 16 years of public health and community-based experience working at the local, state, and national levels. Drawing from a diverse professional background as a consultant, researcher, speaker, author, teacher, and coach, Joy specializes in partnering with city and community leaders, organizations, and professionals to create and improve the conditions, opportunities, and resources in community environments that are necessary for all people and places to reach their potential. Joey believes that community professionals have the power to accomplish complex change in communities and has identified the minimum specifications and fundamental shifts for making this change a reality in her first book, Transforming Communities - Lessons Learned from More than 30 Years of Healthy Communities Efforts.In addition to her first book, Joey is the author of several community focused resource guides and training programs including Managing Change and Leading through Transition: A Guide for Community and Public Health Practitioners and Shifting Upstream - A Call to Action for a New Way of Working. Joey is also the lead author and plan designer of several large-scale, competitive federal grant applications bringing in more than 10 million dollars in grant awards. Before launching Leverage Points Consulting in 2012, Joey worked for ICF International in Atlanta as a contractor for the CDC to assist with the Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative and the Community Transformation Grant. From 2007 to 2010, Joey worked at the Indiana State Department of Health in various roles including Assistant Commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. From 2005 to 2007, Joey was a visiting assistant professor in the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where she received the Excellence in Graduate Teaching award in 2007. Prior to her work in public health, Joey was an NCAA Division I collegiate volleyball coach for 13 years and had a successful professional and collegiate playing career including two years with the United States Women's National Volleyball team.Joey holds a PhD in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior from the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, an MA in Health and Exercise Science from Furman University, and a BS in Physical Education from Texas A&M University.You can reach Joey at jvrazel@leveragepoints.net. Read More Read Less