Joyce LeeAnn Joseph is a certified archivist and an interdisciplinary artist whose work aims to redefine the archive as a space for healing and transformation. She has worked professionally for Weeksville Heritage Center, the Associated Press Corporate Archives, and the New York Public Library. In 2011, she self-published her first archival text, somethymes grief goes for a walk. In 2013, she co-curated The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving event at the Schomburg Center.

In 2017, Joyce LeeAnn emancipated her labor by cultivating Archival Alchemy®, a small business that provides traditional archival services while specializing in creatively activating and enriching archives. Currently, she is producing a multimedia and performance project that explores the idea of embodying archives.