Joy Smallwood
Creative Executive & Brand Strategist
Joy Smallwood is a creative executive, brand strategist, and visual storyteller with more than two decades of experience helping individuals and organizations build understanding and trust through thoughtful communication.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts from the UCLA School of the Arts, she built a career as an artist, photographer, and creative entrepreneur whose work has been recognized through industry awards and national publications. Throughout her career, she has used photography, art, and design to help organizations, brands, and individuals tell stories that connect with people.
Adequacy is not a single number. It is a range that shifts with the outcome you are trying to protect.
Joy Smallwood — ISNS Scientific Advisory Panel
Today, Joy serves as Creative Director for DRC Ventures, leading brand strategy, creative direction, public relations, and communications across a portfolio of wellness and biotechnology initiatives. Her work focuses on translating scientific innovation into communication that people can understand and trust.
Beyond her professional work, Joy has dedicated her creative talents to charitable initiatives, including providing photography for families experiencing the loss of newborns and children with terminal illnesses and creating fundraising art exhibitions supporting breast cancer awareness and research.
As a member of the International Science and Nutrition Society Board, Joy brings a communications and creative leadership perspective, helping scientific innovation reach and resonate with broader audiences while supporting the Society’s mission to advance science-based nutrition, wellness, education, and global collaboration.
Joy Smallwood
Joy Smallwood has an extraordinary mind with a passion for helping others.
