One half of the challenge to fix a problem is to identify the problem. The other half of that challenge is to develop plans and execute the changes successfully, and Florida's Joyce Berry is a Convention of States Volunteer who knows that terrain like the back of her hand.
As COS Florida State Grassroots Coordinator (SGC), Joyce loves change and even made a career for herself by assessing and addressing the needs and requirements of major hospitals all around the country. While attending nursing school, Joyce eventually made note of how unhappy so many nurses were and decided to continue her education all the way through to a Master's in Nursing Administration from University Texas-Arlington so she herself could change the nursing environment, creating pathways for the better. 
Joyce knows the lay of the land when it comes to determining which problems are plaguing and hamstringing a major health operation and which processes are necessary to turn things around.
Within each state there is a COSA State Grassroots Coordinator who recruits, trains and supports District and Regional Captains so they may do similarly within their own districts. Joyce brings her essential skills to the fore as she calculates the best ways to get people in a "passed" state (such as Florida), to remain motivated and educated in all things COS, to draw the newer generations to both the COS Project and the Constitution, and to maximize the impact of communications.
Joyce knows in her heart that only through God can we truly reach others and she holds a bright vision to bring quality face-to-face guidance and training sessions to regional and district captains 
and on a broader scale, to develop a 'traveling troupe' of volunteers to inform and educate others around Florida. Creating Constitutional re-enactments, for example, could be a means to reach, teach and activate the Florida citizens, who otherwise may have limited exposure to what that "piece of paper," the U.S. Constitution, really represents and protects.
Joyce also leads Florida's TelePatriot Mission Team and finds operating the in-house software to be neater than sliced bread. She saw there was a need to bolster volunteer's confidence and developed a training team to assist with practice-runs, utilizing the software between each other before engaging in live call-to-action (CTA) missions. The TelePatriot software has become an invaluable tool to COSA and has helped steer outcomes as significant as increasing awareness and turnout for legislative items and election ballot measures. This summer's missions are essential for alerting volunteers to school board elections and providing clarity when reading ballot measures such as one involving a Constitution Revision Commission in Florida where the language makes it very easy to confuse a vote in favor for or against it.
People are important to her and communication is an essential tool that she has relied upon to improve conditions and outcomes for all. 
Joyce values self-reliance and self-preservation traits as essential and she gained full appreciation of her own while sailing with her husband for nearly six months continuously. This voyage embarked from Houston, TX to the Bahamas and served as an amazing learning tool that greatly changed her life and she stressed 
the significance of the fellowship between her and God on the water. She passes on this strength and resourcefulness to not only the COS volunteers but to her two daughters, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren (with one more on the way).
Retirement is much too tame for Joyce to simply hang up her hat and rest her feet. The recent pandemic opened her eyes wide to the problems in our school systems and beyond that, the problems festering inside our broader government systems. Joyce knows very well what it takes to steer a ship to shore and can help Convention of States bring about the means for a solution to these problems, Article V.
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