Joyce Ferriabough Bolling

Joyce Ferriabough Bolling is a Boston Herald journalist and Democratic Party strategist.{{Cite book |last=Gaskin |first=Ed |title=Black Women Lead: Boston's Most Admired, Beloved, and Iconic Leaders, 1700 - Present |date=10 April 2025 |publisher=Independently published |isbn=979-8317465209 |language=en}}

In 2011, Bolling was recognized as a "Woman of Courage" Award by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus alongside former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, human rights activist Rubina Bhatti, and former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman.{{Cite news |date=7 July 2011 |title=IN the news |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/news/docview/880108272/se-2 |url-status= |archive-url= |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Boston Banner}} In 2023, she was recognized as one of "Boston’s most admired, beloved, and successful Black Women leaders" by the Black Women Lead project.{{Cite web |title=Black Women Lead |url=http://www.greatergrovehall.org/black-women-lead/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Greater Grove Hall Main Streets |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Mike |date=2023-10-04 |title=Portraits along Blue Hill Avenue honor Boston's Black women leaders |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/portraits-honor-boston-black-women-leaders-roxbury/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=CBS Boston |language=en-US}} In 2024, she was nominated by State Senator Liz Miranda and inducted into the Class of 2024 Commonwealth Heroines of Massachusetts.{{Cite book |last= |url=https://masscsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MCSW_CH_Program_Book_2024_PRINT.pdf |title=Twenty-first Annual Commonwealth Heroines of Massachusetts Celebration |date=14 June 2024 |publisher=Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women}}

In collaboration with Boston City Councilman Bruce Bolling, Joyce Bolling passed Boston's "linkage law," conditioning approval of real estate projects on construction of affordable housing. Following this work, the pair married and remained together until Bruce's death in September 2012.