Joyce Aboussie is an entrepreneur and consultant based in St. Louis, Missouri. She is CEO and Owner of Aboussie & Associates, a strategic consulting firm that manages research and communications for political, corporate and non-profit campaigns. Ms. Aboussie is also CEO of Telephone Contact Incorporated, a firm that leverages voter data to develop and deliver targeted messaging and mobilize supporters. Telephone Contact Inc. and Aboussie & Associates have represented Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, national corporations, national polling firms, and labor organizations. As a lifelong political activist, Joyce Aboussie was involved with Democratic Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt’s campaigns, starting in 1977, and became his National Political Director in 1989. She continued to work with Congressman Gephardt at the top of his political organization until his retirement in 2005.Ms. Aboussie was the first female Chairperson ever to be elected to the ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Board of Directors and has been on the board since 1983, when she was the youngest person ever to be asked to join the National Board of Directors and Governors. Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude is now the largest healthcare charity in the nation. Thanks to her many contributions to Missouri and the St. Louis area, The St. Louis Business Journal honored Ms. Aboussie as one of the “Most Influential Business Women” in 1996. Prior to that, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recognized Aboussie in their “25 Most Influential St. Louisans'” article in 1983. She has also been named by both St. Louis Magazine and The St. Louis Business Journal as one of “40 People Under 40″ who make a difference in St. Louis.
