Meet Our Team

Hey,

I’m Jade!

I’m community-rooted social worker, educator, creative, and survivor. I created The JoyCore Project as an act of reclamation—of joy, creativity, and collective healing. I believe healing doesn’t happen in isolation or in sterile spaces; it happens in community, through art, through story, through building something new together.

My work is shaped by lived experience, including complex trauma and years of personal healing. I believe joy is not just medicine—it’s our birthright.

Through JoyCore, we’re reclaiming an arts-in-health model rooted in social prescribing, cross-sector collaboration, and economic justice for culture-bearers. We work at the intersection of public health, abolition, and creative placemaking—bringing together artists, youth, healers, and system-impacted communities to co-create long-term pathways toward joy access and recovery. We don’t believe healing happens in silos—it happens in vibrant, messy, art-filled, justice-rooted community.

When I’m not working on the project, you can find me working as an associate clinical social worker, pursuing my certification as a registered Expressive Arts consultant/educator, writing on substack, and gathering with friends.

This belief is the heart of my framework of Joy Access, which recognizes joy as both a vital sign of well-being and a strategy for liberation.

Let’s build something joyful, together.

Hi, I’m Adrienne.

Adrienne is a multidisciplinary working-class artist whose creative practice is deeply rooted in community, resistance, abolition, and transformative justice. With a background in grassroots activism and organizing, their work bridges the visual and the political, channeling lived experiences and collective memory into forms that challenge systemic violence and reimagine justice beyond punishment and centering joy, repair and regrowth. Grounded in a radical imagination of the future, they create pieces and lead work that speak to liberation, healing, and solidarity and radical love—using art not only as expression, but as a tool for cultural strategy and social change.