About Joanna

Co-Founder and President of Circo de Cinco (Circus of Five)

Circo de Cinco is a bi-lingual, long-term leadership and character development program that my husband and I run. It's focused on developing the whole person (spiritual, mental, emotional and physical) in order to launch strong, engaged, and empathetic young adults.


All of our enrollees live in-house until they launch, hopefully around age 18 years old, but that will be on a case-by-case basis.

As President, I handle the day-to-day logistics, manage projects, and implement the company training program, as well as help with vision-casting and company expansion. As the one who spends the most time interfacing with our youth enrollees, I consistently assess, correct, and provide feedback on individual development and advancement, as well as set individual goals and plans. All of this is done in partnership with my husband, the CEO.

I am intimately involved in setting and maintaining the budget, planning company outings, and ensuring all necessary benchmarks are met for whole-person success. On any given day, I wear many hats, requiring constant innovation, flexibility, and endurance. This role also requires high social and emotional intelligence, humility, curiosity, and a willingness to put in long hours.

Internally, I have a much less formal title, often masking to the outside world the vital importance and professional capacity and skill required by the hundreds of thousands who fill a similar roles.

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I write sporadically about our traveling circus here.

Joanna Hyatt is a writer, international speaker, and media personality who lives in the Pacific Northwest. She is married to screenwriter/director Andrew Hyatt, raising five (usually) delightful children.

With nearly two decades of experience in the non-profit space, Hyatt is a trusted voice on issues related to sexuality, abortion, family, faith, and the role of women in society. She has appeared in print and on numerous programs and podcasts, including for Focus on the Family, the Daily Wire, Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, and Live Action News. She is the author and host of thirty-five teaching episodes on the platform Right Now Media.

From 2016-2021, Joanna played a key role at Live Action, a national organization that leads in shifting public opinion on abortion by promoting the humanity of the pre-born. Beginning as the Field Word Director, strategizing and overseeing Live Action's undercover investigations, she was promoted to Director of Strategic Partnerships, where she headed up the major gifts department, built relationships with outside influencers and spoke publicly at conferences and in the media.

Previously, Joanna Hyatt was the Director of a non-profit teen pregnancy and STD prevention program based in Los Angeles. During her time, Joanna developed the program into a nationally replicated STD and teen pregnancy prevention curriculum, while simultaneously speaking to thousands of teens annually. She is the author of The Sex Talk: A Survival Guide for Parents, and has been featured in numerous documentaries and as a guest commentator for both radio and television.