Joy McCray is a native of East Tennessee, a seventh generation Carter Countian and a Born Again Cyclone. Joy attended Memphis College of Art and University of Memphis for both undergraduate degrees. Joy later returned to Elizabethton TN to complete both Masters at Appalachian State University-GO MOUNTAINEERS! You may know her from her previous 15 years of hard time at Frontier Health as the Director of Development and Public Relations, or from when she brought dead bodies to Hands On when she was working with Donate Life to promote organ donation. Joy took the leap to serve her hometown as the Executive Director of the Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce June 1, 2020 and is happy to report the building is still standing.  When Joy isn’t working she spends her time on the lake with her family, driving her dogs around in the jeep they think she bought for them, and gardening. She’s also an avid early morning power walker with her friends that walk at the pace of pissed off, plays in the adult soccer league on Pitch Please and Orange You Glad We aren’t the Passholes and tries to stay upright at spin twice a week.