Joy Monroe, the Founder/CEO of SPARC (Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center), has dedicated her professional life to ensuring equity for single parents and their children. She founded SPARC after moving to Atlanta from New York and experiencing firsthand the challenges single parents face without extended family and community support. SPARC was born as a support group in Joy’s living room to provide support, social capital, and parenting education to single moms in her neighborhood. Over the years, SPARC has grown into an award winning, internationally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Joy has been recognized by the White House as well as locally for her work with single parent families. SPARC serves hundreds of families each year ensuring that single parents know that, although they are single, they are not alone.