Joy Midman joined the Board in the spring of 2016. That same year, she transitioned to the position of Senior Advisor for Public Policy for the National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health, where she served as its founding executive director for the previous thirty years. Before founding the association, she served as the Associate Executive Director to the National Association for Private Psychiatric Hospitals for ten years. A resident of Washington for 45 years, she has been an active participant or council member in an array of community activities involved with social justice, Jewish education and cultural programming, and progressive pro-Israel organizations.
