Dr. Joy E. Hecht


consultant
traveler
writer
photographer

My professional life is devoted to work on environmental issues in the developing world. I am something of a data geek, and derive great pleasure from analyzing tangled problems through the application of logic and numbers. I've had a chance to do that in many contexts and many parts of the world, and I usually even get paid for it, so I consider myself quite lucky.

I also like to write, which I do at length in my professional work, my travel writing, and emails to my friends. One of these days I hope to see more of my writing published somewhere other than this website, but for now you can see some of it here.

I've always been a graphic designer "on the side," dating back to the days of x-acto knives, rubylith, and transfer type. Since I bought my first digital camera, I've also done a lot of photography, some of which will soon (or maybe someday?) be up on the "photos" section of this site.

For more information, please feel free to
contact me. Chances are, I'll even reply!

Latest Update - -

Turns out, living in one place wasn't very interesting, and I didn't have much to write about.

But now I'm traveling again, partly for work and partly for fun. So I'm posting again too - you can read about it here.