Joyce Moy is the Executive Director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Joyce has been involved in numerous research projects, education and outreach on Asian and immigrant communities, and businesses. She was the first Asian American regional director of a US Small Business Administration Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in New York State.

Over the years, she developed a unique curriculum for financial counselors embedded in community based organizations serving New York City’s poor, working poor and immigrants. The training was adopted by the non-profit, Cities for Financial Empowerment, and replicated nationally by dozens of US cities, including Honolulu, San Francisco Philadelphia, Miami, New Haven and Austin, becoming a national model in the field of financial empowerment.

Most recently, she was part of a team that led a two year strategic plan effort for the New York State Education Department to integrate 23 school districts. She was also instrumental in the development of the New York State framework on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining education.

She is a member of the CUNY University Advisory Council on Diversity, and is a founding advisor to the Queens Borough President’s General Assembly comprised of diverse leaders from throughout Queens. She has served on the Governor’s Taskforce on Small Business, as co-chair of the past NYC Comptroller’s Taskforce on Public Benefit Agreements, the board of Asian Women in Business, and as Vice-Chair of the board of the North East Regional US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce. She is a former practicing attorney, and has taught at Cornell University School of Law, and the CUNY School of Law. She received her B.A. from Stony Brook University, and J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law.