Ray Joyce (Questrom Social Impact MBA\u201991) brings more than 30 years of non-profit management and fundraising experience to STH along with a marketing and sales background in the private sector. He has spent a good portion of his career to date in public television fundraising and managing a service for visually-impaired audiences developed at WGBH, running day-to-day operations for the station\u2019s new media department and later heading up marketing, development, and educational services at WGBY.<\/p>\n
Ray also served as Executive Director for the grassroots church reform organization \u201cVoice of the Faithful.\u201d Prior to STH, he was the Director of Development at Lazarus House Ministries, a gospel-based human services organization, where he led their first-ever capital campaign, surpassing their $5 million goal. In total, Ray has raised more than $75 million for four different non-profits, including Boston University. Earlier in his career, he worked in marketing and sales at Wang Laboratories. Ray then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica working with a women\u2019s cooperative and later volunteered for Habitat for Humanity in the US and abroad. Also a graduate of Merrimack College, he was a member of their Alumni Executive Board.<\/p>\n
He lives in Acton with his wife Michele who will earn her masters from BUSSW in 2024. They have 3 children, two of whom will soon earn BU undergraduate degrees. Ray enjoys collaborating with STH alumni and friends to secure major gifts in support of the school\u2019s critical mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/52072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/52072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52073,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/52072\/revisions\/52073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=52072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}