She served as picture editor at The Washington Post from 1990 to 2006 and was president of the National Press Photographers Association in 1992.
Foy was placed third in the category News Picture Story as also being part of the Miami Herald community.
The Neiman Reports article[2] Foy talks about her career and what she has experienced: "This was The Gainesville Sun.
Three years later I walk into The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: 'We already have one woman and wouldn’t mind having another,' said the director of photography."
In the Nieman Reports article Foy mentions: "But I loved chasing news in Florida, the Caribbean and Central America and meeting deadlines on important stories like the Miami riots, Haitian interdiction, Cuban refugees."
In the Flashback Miami Herald website,[3] for example, displays photos of an older attraction that was named, "Parrot Jungle".