Dr. Amber Johnson

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Dr. Amber

Johnson

BENAC Auxiliary Member

As a scholar/artist/activist, Dr. Amber Johnson’s research and activism focus on narratives of identity, protest, healing, and social justice in digital media, popular media, and everyday lived experiences. As a polymath, their mixed-media artistry involves working with metals, recycled and reclaimed goods, photography, poetry, percussion, and paint to interrogate systems of oppression and create capacity for different, critical futures. Dr. Amber Johnson is the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff in the Division for Equity & Inclusion at University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the administrative team at UC Berkeley, Dr. Johnson served as an award-winning Professor of Communication and Social Justice and as Executive Director and co-founder of The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University.  Dr. Johnson specializes in community engagement, humanizing equity, and exploring the relationship between healing justice and equity. Dr. Johnson is also the founding director of The Justice Fleet ™, a mobile social justice museum that fosters healing through art, dialogue, pleasure, and play. Dr. Johnson created The Justice Fleet to experiment with methodologies that re-imagine community engagement, healing justice, humanized equity, and critical futures.