[5] While originally training for a career in musical theatre (and later film), a high school teacher encouraged her to pursue screenwriting.

[2] Joy has professed her desire to combat the invisibility and misrepresentation of Filipinos in western media.

"[6] She was featured by FLARE as one of five Canadian "rabble rousers," telling the magazine she believes "many [women of colour] are leaders despite forces that see [them] as unworthy, as threats, as less than—as other.

[10] In 2017, Joy was nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada Award for Second Jen's pilot script "Couch Surfing.

[14] Joy has also received a shared Canadian Screen Award nomination for Son of a Critch.