National Ad Campaign For Dixie Featuring Joy Rose

JOY ROSE has been awarded the Susan B. Anthony Award from NOW-NYC 2009.
Joy Rose is President and Founder of Mamapalooza Inc. a company by women, promoting (m)others for social, cultural and economic benefit. She is also acting Executive Director for The Motherhood Foundation working towards the Museum Of Motherhood.  Joy was appointed the Susan B. Anthony Award from NOW-NYC in recognition of her grassroots activism and dedication to advancing equality and improving the lives of women and girls in 2009.

Committed a lasting legacy of empowerment and support, while redefining what it means to be a modern mother, Joy has successfully pioneered a new culture of mom-branded art and performance. She’s also the founder and lead singer of the rock band, 'Housewives On Prozac'. Inspired by her experiences as a feminist mother in the arts, she works tirelessly with women, and volunteers around the country co-creating events and programming, changing the way women's voices are heard in the media, education and performing arts, impacting the culture of modern mothers and their families.

Day to day operations of Mamapalooza include the inception and production of a series of large-scale festival events across the country each April –June, working in alliance with local government, parks departments and cultural affairs. Each Mamapalooza Festival generates community awareness while highlighting mom-music performers, women-owned businesses, vendors, health education, social services for families and kids activities.

The first MAMAPALOOZA event took place on a single stage in Manhattan in 2002. MAMAPALOOZA Inc. has grown into an international organization with Festival Stages, Tours, Conferences, Music Publishing, a Record Label, Books and Radio directly impacting thousands with media outreach in the millions. MAMAPALOOZA organizes events and opportunities for women artists, educators and entrepreneurs yearlong, while a Conference each May in New York City generates an ongoing platform for educators and activists citing all aspects of the maternal, and working in partnership with The Motherhood Foundation.

Joy Rose – holds a BFA in Theater from Denison University, was a core team member of the Betsey Johnson organization and opened the first Soho Store in New York City. She has enjoyed success as a recording and video artist, is a Billboard Chart topping performer and MTV Basement Tape Winner. She worked closely with her midwife to form ‘Prepared Parenting Classes’ post childbirth, and is the proud mother of Brody, Blaze, Ali and Zena.

Her writing has been published in Women’s Media Center, The Mom Egg, Hot Moms Handbook and The International Museum Of Women and The Association For Research On Mothering. Her music has appeared on radio stations around the country and she’s been profiled on CNN, American Voices, Women In History, NPR, Good Morning America, USA Today, The London Times, The Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, NBC, Ladies’ Home Journal, Child Magazine and People Magazine to name a few.

She is a featured guest speaker for Women’s Events, on Radio, in Hospitals (Highlighting stories of courage and survival), most recently at The Association For Research On Mothering where key delegates agreed on the formation of the IMN (International Mothers Network). She has appeared at The Women’s Media Center, NYC founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, speaking on Art, Feminism and Finances. She was a featured guest speaker at the ‘What Women Want’ Conference, October 2007, Montana, The MPLZCC Creativity & Lifestyles Conference, NYC, and sits on a special committee for the Westchester Office For Women and The Women’s Hall Of Fame. Joy holds the key to Seneca Falls, NY for her work on behalf of Women & Mothers 2005.

She is also a contributor to ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MOTHERHOOD: A New 3-volume Reference to Be Published  by Sage Publications, edited by Andrea O'Reilly due out 2010. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes some 750 articles, covering all aspects of a social science perspective on motherhood, including psychology, gender studies, sociology, education, human development, history, and other fields.

www.mamapalooza.com
www.housewivesonprozac.com
www.mamaztv.com
www.motherhoodfoundation.org
www.internationalmothesnetwork.org