Joy G. Dryfoos (1925 – 28 March 2012) was an American sociologist who is credited with the creation of the concept of full-service schools.
She also worked in a commune in North Dakota, and was the assistant director of an art studio in a Ypsilanti, Michigan, public housing project.
In the early 1940s, Dryfoos began attending Antioch College, leaving in 1947, just a few credits short of graduating.
She wrote a series of briefs based on census data, but did not intend for any specific audience to read them.
[1] After graduation, Dryfoos started a small consulting firm, Research, Writing and Editing Associates, before joining the Center for Family Planning Program Development, which is now the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
[2] Dryfoos began to teach at Columbia University, where she became a full professor in the School of Public Health.
[2][5] She became a Senior Consultant to the Public Education Network’s Schools and Community Initiative, and has also served on multiple National Academy of Sciences panels.