Joyelle Naomi

Founder/CVO

Joyelle Naomi is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of  Denver Independent School. She is a 2021 Camelback Venture Fellow, 2020 Moonshot edVentures Fellow and holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology.  Joyelle is a home educator and as a result of her own journey homeschooling Black children and especially through difficult life challenges she is deeply passionate about building equitable and liberated systems of access that support marginalized homeschooling families. Joyelle’s work includes advocating for and mentoring single, Black, working homeschooling moms, curating STEAM education for students, and designing liberated education spaces that support parents in cultivating sustainable home schools. Joyelle loves speaking to audiences about what she calls “ability currency”, focusing on the “how” of homeschooling, combatting the popular deficit-based idea that not all families can homeschool, especially families of color.

A proud Denverite, Joyelle loves the Colorado outdoors. She is a die hard Trekkie and is famous for saying, “There’s a Star Trek episode for that”!