After talking about how much now-retired Vice President of Student Affairs Barb Jones meant to her Boston College experience and the University as a whole during a time of social tumult, Akosua Achampong, BC ’18, isn’t in a sad mood or low spirits.

Despite losing an administrator she viewed as an understanding advocate fighting for students and serving as a role model for women on campus, Achampong is itching to talk about something else.

“I love Joy Moore,” Achampong said in an interview in August. “Joy Moore is a superstar, let’s just start there. She is so badass, like wow.”

Jones’s successor as vice president for Student Affairs, Joy Haywood Moore, BC ’81, embodies the characteristics the former Undergraduate Government of Boston College president holds dear: strong, female, graceful, poised, kind, compassionate, diligent, undeniable.

“She is someone who moves with such grace and poise—it’s amazing,” Achampong said. “She’s definitely a woman that I immensely look up to in every way, and her ability to fulfill so many roles and inhabit so many spaces. I connect with her on many different levels. … I’m not sure I’ve met someone like her before.

Moore exudes another feature Jones showcased in spades: enthusiasm. There isn’t a topic somebody can touch on that Moore isn’t interested in engaging on. She listens intently, her responses are measured in that she takes time to gather her thoughts, but enthusiastic in that she isn’t afraid to make it clear how she feels.