EdCircuit Staff

Joy Lin attended the University of Texas in Austin at 15 and graduated with 3 degrees by the age of 21. She has been teaching in Austin Independent School District ever since. In 2012, she was named one of 18 most inspiring educators by TED.com, which hosts TED talks among other projects. TED was so impressed with her; they funded a six-part animated series “If Superpowers Were Real.” The animated series premiered in 2013 on TED.Ed and received international media attention from BBC, FOX, KUT, Time Warner Cable News, and over 100 websites.

The following year, Joy was named “Innovator of the Year” By Texas Classroom Teachers Association. In 2014, Joy started hosting Comic-Con panels in various cities, including Las Vegas Wizard World Comic Con, Texas Comic-Con, and the San Diego International Comic-Con. Having started in February 2015 as a stand-up comedian, Joy has performed at the 2015 Sacramento Comedy Festival, the 2016 NYC Crosstown Comedy Festival, and qualified as a quarterfinalist in the 2016 Funniest in South Texas contest.

Joy then transitioned to screenwriting/filmmaking and found immediate success with over 30 international and domestic film awards, including Winner of Independent Horror Movie Awards and Nominee of Paris Art and Movie Awards. Most recently, she became a published author with her book series “Superpower Science” via Hatchette Book Group, slated to release in 2018. Joy is currently an academic advisor to Sentence Analytics.