Leadership grounded in service, stewardship and whole-person well-being.

Josie Smith

Founder & President

Strategy, programs and governance

Josie Smith is the Founder and President of The Joyful Woman Project, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women restore joy, heal generational patterns and reconnect with their authentic selves.

Josie brings a rare pairing of business discipline and healing practice to this work. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and serves as Executive Operations Manager for The Love Peace Harmony Foundation, where she leads the daily operations of a mission-driven nonprofit. From 2020 to 2025 she founded and ran Sculpt Maven Spa LLC, a women’s wellness business. She continues that healing work through a mind-body-spirit practice grounded in her training as a Certified Personal Trainer, Reiki practitioner and Tao Hands practitioner.

The Joyful Woman Project was born from Josie’s own story. In 2019 she lost her mother to colon cancer, and soon after returned home to care for her father through his own colon cancer diagnosis, carrying a demanding professional life alongside the grief and daily work of caregiving. She came to know how heavily that weight settles into the body, and how easily a woman who holds everything for everyone can lose herself in the process. In learning to heal herself, Josie found her calling: to restore the very women who do the heavy lifting for their families and communities.

As Founder and President, Josie provides strategic leadership, program development, fundraising oversight, community-partnership cultivation and organizational governance. Her father, now a colon cancer survivor in remission, stands beside her in this mission.

Tiffany Dubec

Vice President

Clinical practice and wellness networks

Tiffany Dubec is a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic, entrepreneur and wellness leader dedicated to helping women discover their strengths, pursue their goals and create meaningful change in their lives and communities.

Tiffany spent sixteen years building and operating her own chiropractic practice, an experience that grounds her in both whole-person care and the realities of running a mission-driven business. Throughout her career she has supported others through holistic health, nutrition, mental wellness and personal growth.

She serves as Director of the Practitioner Program and Product Specialist for High Tech Health, partnering with wellness professionals across the country. That national network is a natural asset as the organization develops its own curated circle of practitioners, and her leadership experience strengthens the board’s governance.

Evelyn Volter

Secretary

Engineering, safety and mission assurance

Evelyn Volter brings more than twenty years of engineering leadership at NASA to the founding board. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Business Foundations, from the University of Texas at Austin. At NASA she has served as a Safety Engineer and now works as an Engineering Technical Manager, leading a team of approximately thirty professionals. Her career is defined by technical excellence, mission assurance and a steadfast commitment to safety, the same disciplined oversight she brings to governance as Secretary.

Beyond her profession, Evelyn has devoted years to service that mirrors this mission. She volunteers with programs supporting survivors of domestic violence, offering mentorship, workshops and educational opportunities that help women rebuild their lives. As Ministry Leader of her church’s Creative Arts Ministry for youth she helps young people develop their gifts, and through the PEACE Ministry she helps provide food, clothing and essential resources to families in need.

Whether leading engineering teams, mentoring women or serving families in need, Evelyn is committed to lasting impact through leadership, faith, compassion and service.

Mary Elizabeth Woodard, MSN, RN, CPPS

Treasurer

Patient safety and financial stewardship

Mary Elizabeth Woodard is a registered nurse and patient-safety leader with more than twenty-four years of healthcare experience. She serves as a Senior Quality Outcomes Specialist in Patient Safety for one of the nation’s leading academic health systems, where she leads complex patient-safety initiatives, root cause analyses, quality-improvement strategies and organizational risk reduction.

A breast cancer survivor, Reiki Master and advocate for holistic wellness, Mary brings a rare blend of clinical rigor, disciplined oversight and compassionate leadership to the board. Her career has been dedicated to building safer systems, improving outcomes and helping people navigate healing with dignity and purpose.

As Treasurer, Mary applies the same rigor she brings to risk reduction in healthcare to the organization’s financial oversight, championing responsible stewardship, transparency and long-term sustainability.