Joey Garcia (writer)
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| Born | Joey Garcia November 2, 1960 Belize City | ||
| Nationality | American | ||
| Citizenship | United States of America | ||
| Alma mater | Sacramento State University | ||
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Joey Garcia (born November 2, 1960) is a Belizean American writer, social entrepreneur, and inspirational speaker.
Early Life and education
Joey Garcia [1] was born November 2, 1960, in Belize City, Belize. Her family immigrated to San Francisco in 1963, and eventually became naturalized U.S. citizens. She spent her childhood in Hayward, Calif., and Compton, California Compton, Calif. Garcia’s work deals with relationships, feminism, racism, and spirituality.[2] She is a graduate of Sacramento State University.
Career
For more than 22 years, Garcia wrote Ask Joey, a weekly relationship advice column for the News & Review#Sacramento%20News%20%26%20Reviewm Sacramento News & Review newspaper. Since 2014 she has been the on-air relationship expert at Fox-40 TV in Sacramento. As a relationship expert, Garcia has been featured in USA Today[3], the Business Journal, PBS KVIE TV[4], Sacramento Magazine[2] and on Slate’s Dear Prudence podcast.[5]
In 2005, Garcia founded the non-profit organization, Rise Up Belize! Advancement through Education and began to offer free professional development workshops for primary school teachers throughout Belize.[6] In 2006, she began to train U.S. high school students in the leadership skills necessary to write lesson plans, teach courses, and manage a classroom of children aged six to ten years old. Garcia then brought these American teenagers to Belize during the summer break to serve as faculty in rigorous, academic summer school programs offered free to Belizean children. Rise Up Belize served 60 to 100 children every summer in impoverished villages in Belize, providing education, meals, and school supplies. Rise Up Belize was recognized for its capacity to do double duty with every donated dollar via its capacity to train teens in leadership development while simultaneously providing advanced education to Belizean children.[7] The nonprofit closed in 2016.
Garcia launched The Belize Writers Conference in 2018.[8] It was the first such event of its kind in Belize and the first time Belizean writers were invited to participate in a professional-level literary event alongside writers from the U.S. at an event in their home country. Garcia also established the first-ever fellowship for a Belizean writer in the history of Belize.[9] The writer-in-residence fellowship was funded by the Copal Distillery Foundation in 2018 and 2019. Garcia self-funded the fellowship in 2020 as the Joey Garcia Fellowship for Belizean Writers. Her motivation for launching the fellowship came from the discovery that Belize is one of the only countries in the world that is not included in the international literary canon.
Joey Garcia is also the author of When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love: Healing and finding love after an affair, heartbreak or divorce which was designated a recommended read by her alma mater, Sacramento State.
References
- ↑ "SN&R • Local Stories • Feature Story • Meet Joey Garcia • Oct 20, 2016". Sacramento News & Review. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Magazine, Sacramento (2006-09-21). "Joey Garcia". Sacramento Magazine. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ↑ Ryu, Jenna. "Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have us wondering: When is texting your ex a good idea?". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ↑ Studio Sacramento: Advice Columnist Joey Garcia, retrieved 2022-03-01
- ↑ "Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery: Alive & Juicy on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ↑ "RISE UP BELIZE ADVANCEMENT THROUGH EDUCATION – California Companies Directory". Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "Rise Up Belize! Aspires to Help Children". Comstock's magazine. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ Staff, B. B. N. (2018-02-26). "Writers' conference to be held in Belize". Belize News and Opinion on www.breakingbelizenews.com. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "The Belize writing conference—why attend?". Amandala Newspaper. 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
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