About Perfectly Curated Life

PerfectlyCuratedLife is an international lifestyle platform, created to share food, design, and travel advice with international audiences. PerfectlyCuratedLife helps people cook better, host better, style better, and lead their most elegant and elevated lives. Whether cooking, gift wrapping, or traveling, its founder, Heather Joy Thompson, Esq., inspires style and beauty in others. Through her fun, hilarious, and engaging videos and posts, Heather Joy brings culture and a joie de vivre to her viewers.

Heather Joy believes that celebrations of food and beauty are central and meaningful to so many traditional gatherings in the United States and abroad, and that food is really a metaphor for love and combining humankind’s greatest strengths. From Mexico, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, and Ecuador to the United States, Heather Joy’s years of traveling and living abroad bred her a great fondness for sharing stories and amplifying human connections. PerfectlyCuratedLife contextualizes the connections shared by the world’s people, cuisines, and cultures. Its followers get the inside scoop on the best places to eat, visit, and lounge.

Heather Joy’s eye for detail, ear for nuance, and tongue for clear communication help make even the most exotic meal and wildest adventure understandable and relatable. From luxurious spas and hotels, to hole-in-the-wall diners, and dives, there is nowhere PerfectlyCuratedLife won’t go.

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus quarantine, PerfectlyCuratedLife has focused on sharing cooking and lifestyle videos. Heather Joy’s long-form cooking demonstrations teach home cooks how to maximize flavor and create delicious and healthy meals using a combination of pantry staples, exotic spices and easy cooking methods.

About Heather Joy: Heather Joy Thompson, Esq., is a lawyer and an award-winning career diplomat at the United States Department of State. She learned to cook at her mother’s knee while preparing treasured family meals. Heather Joy later developed both her culinary skills and a talent for elevating food and lifestyle experiences through the deep appreciation for cultures she gained while traveling the globe. Heather Joy served as a representative to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and was an International Career Advancement Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She was previously the State Department’s Diplomat-in-Residence and a Senior Fellow at UCLA. She also has served in Washington, D.C., Mexico City, and Johannesburg.

While living in Johannesburg, Heather Joy co-founded Abafazi Ambassadors, a leadership development program for students from The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, in Henley-Upon-Klip, South Africa. Heather Joy started her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Her travels and studies have taken her to more than 40 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Central America, and Australia.

Heather Joy grew up in Southfield, Michigan. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Spelman College and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School.
As an undergraduate, she studied Renaissance art and Italian language in Florence, Italy.
As a law student, she studied international trade and European Union law in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Passau, Germany. She is a member in good standing of the Michigan Bar Association.

Prior to joining the State Department, Heather Joy was Sean “Diddy” Combs’ personal assistant and went on to lead his “Vote or Die” voter education campaign. Heather Joy currently stars in a national television advertisement campaign for ‘Dove Amplified Textures.’ She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Where Are They Now, and in the pages of the New York Times, Town & Country Magazine, Ebony, Essence, JET, and on PEOPLE.com.

Heather Joy’s cooking tutorials, travel tips and lifestyle lessons are available on her
global online platform, PerfectlyCuratedLife.com and on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook: @perfectlycuratedlife.