Joy Chatel

Joy is a leader on the Downtown Brooklyn Campaign for Accountable Development and elected to the board in May of 2009.  Joy has been a member of FUREE since 2004, taking a special interest in unfair zoning and irresponsible development.  Over the years, she’s held the office of Title I chair and PTA President in Brooklyn’s districts 13 and 22 and received countless awards in advocacy and leadership.  Joy has also fought hard for the preservation of her home, 227 Duffield Street, an Underground Rail Road safe house in Downtown Brooklyn.  She is the proud mother of five children a grandmother of twelve and great-grandmother of two.