Joyce Aboussie

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Joyce Aboussie is the President and Owner of Aboussie & Associates, a firm in St. Louis, Missouri, dedicated to bringing a campaign mentality to the corporate world. Additionally, Ms. Aboussie established in 1986 Telephone Contact, Incorporated, a voter contact, telemarketing and direct mail firm.

Joyce Aboussie was the National Vice Chair of Congressman Dick Gephardt’s Presidential Campaign and previously served as his National Political Director. She worked with Congressman Dick Gephardt at the top of his political organization for nearly 30 years.

In 2006, the St. Louis Business Journal honored Joyce as one of the “Most Influential Business Women." Joyce Aboussie is "respected by top Republicans as well as Democrats as someone with the technology and staff at her fingertips to reach thousands...in one night's time," read the 8/18/96 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the "25 Most Influential St. Louisans". She has been named by both St. Louis Magazine and St. Louis Business Journal as one of "40 people under 40" who make a difference in St. Louis.

In 1983, Joyce was the youngest person ever elected to the National Board of Directors and Governors of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. In 2006, Joyce was elected as the first woman Chairperson of the ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Board of Directors and Governors. St. Jude, based in Memphis, Tennessee is now the second largest health care charity in the nation, and was founded by the late entertainer, Danny Thomas.