Joie Kingsley

"'You've got to make your own decisions in life, Amelia. I can't dictate what you should do anymore.'"Dr Jodie "Joie" Kingsley (née Meyer) BSc is the mother of Amelia Kingsley and the wife of Head of CIA, Jacob Kingsley. She is an astrophysician who works for NASA and is of Israeli descent.

History
Joie was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to two unknown Israeli parents. She began practising Judaism at a young age and was baptised in the River Jordan aged 16. At the age of 5, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and adopted the American-English language. She maintained her Israeli roots, however, and is fluent in both English and Hebrew. When she was 17, she took an interest in quantum mechanics and quantum physics. She had known Jacob Kingsley since she was 16, after meeting him at a New York conference for physics. She fell pregnant with Amalya "Amelia" when she was 19 and had her out of wedlock, which led to the dissipation of her relationship with her parents. She married Jacob two years later and suffered infertility issues. When she was 24, she fulfilled her desire of wanting to work on an oil rig, and spent 23 months on the newly built Deepwater Horizon, the Transocean rig in the Gulf of Mexico. After almost two years aboard, she became employed by NASA as a quantum physician and later transferred into the astrophysics department.