She is a recipient of the 2023 ETF.com Lifetime Achievement Award, and the William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award. She was one of the ten inaugural recipients of the Top Women in Asset Management Awards (Money Management Executive 2019). Joanne is a co-author of A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) published in 2015 by the CFA Institute Research Foundation and has published extensively on quantitative investment topics, index products, and derivatives.

Joanne has been involved in ETF and related index products since their inception, having wrote the first Product Guide to ETFs around the launch of iShares and led a team that assisted institutions—such as hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers, and RIAs—in adopting ETFs in the 2000s. She has also penned articles on ETF features and strategies, including educational materials on leveraged, inverse and VIX futures ETFs.

She serves on the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute, and she recently completed a term as Chair of the CFA Institute Research Foundation Board. She served for 12 years on the Board of the "Q" Group (Institute for Quantitative Finance) and chaired their Research Committee.

Prior to her career on Wall Street, she was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). and is currently an Adjunct Professor at College of Charleston. She has a Ph.D. in Finance and M.B.A, from Syracuse University, an M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, and graduated with honors from American University’s School of International Service.

Joanne was a Founding Member and the first Co-President of Women in ETFs. She resides near Charleston, South Carolina where she serves on the board of the largest, life plan community in the region and on the board of an organization sponsoring arts education in local schools.