Joe McKelvin

Joe is a no-nonsense mom who gets the job done. She’s an overly-logical scientist and skeptic who it seems would at times rather spend the day in her lab experimenting with plants than spend quality time with her family. It’s not that she doesn’t love her family — she does — it’s just that she doesn’t always know how to show it. Joe has a tendency to get awkwardly flustered when trying to be vulnerable or show emotion. As Big Pizza grew, Joe became increasingly suspicious of the high-tech society. This is what led her to find The Convoy. She uprooted her family to plant large numbers of a genetically- enhanced potato plant around the world. This plant she engineered has air-purifying capabilities, and it may be society’s last chance to breathe clean air outside of the grasp of PizzaCo.

Joe has a lot of radical ideas and beliefs that people around her find hard to swallow. But she is (almost) never wrong. However, she has a tough time taking advice or being open minded to ideas that she didn’t come up with. Joe is driven to create order out of the messy and erratic world she lives in. This makes her rigid and unadaptable at first. Joe will eventually discover that the only way for her to actually be in control is to adapt to the situations she finds herself in. This includes Joe coming to terms with her role as the de facto leader of The Convoy and balancing that life with her role as mother to her family.