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“Jia is a gifted educator and it has been my immense privilege to collaborate with her for the past four years.
Her leadership is potent and generous, humble and kind. She empowers students, is innovative and skilled. I count myself fortunate to learn with and from Jia.”
Kaia Stern, Ph.D, Director
Prison Studies Project; Practitioner in Residence, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Jia's approach to coaching is genuinely supportive - I love how she supports her clients in articulating their values, their truths, their challenges and helps them to create alignment. She is thoughtful and relentless about honoring your goals in a way that ensures you'll get them done. She creates a coaching space that encourages you to bring your whole self to the call, which is a beautiful thing to experience!"
Laura Weldy, Professional Certified Coach
Leadership Development Expert for Career Women
Social Impact Program Design and Implementation
Solidarity Building Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary (2019 - 2024)
Higher Education in Jail initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary. The initiative model was designed and implemented by Jia Johnson as the director of SBI.
Abolition as Resurrection Podcast
Abolition as Resurrection is a podcast miniseries co-produced and co-hosted by Jia Johnson and Camille Hernandez. The podcast theme was inspired by Jia’s commitments, spiritual activism, abolition and higher education in jail.
Certificate in Community Healing (2023)
Summer Youth Program for Off the Pews Faith and Action (2019)
Pathway to Enterprises for Returning Citizens at Sunshine Enterprises partnership (2018)
Podcasts
Abolition as Resurrection Podcast
Abolition as Resurrection is a podcast miniseries co-produced and co-hosted by Camille Hernandez and Jia Johnson that is created for the Lenten and Easter season. This podcast seeks to understand abolition without co-opting or inserting ideologies that have not been consistent with the movement. Through interviewing abolitionists, theologians, and scholars our goal is to understand if there is a relationship between the theology of Resurrection and the Abolition movement to discover if we can find a path forward that we can implement in our everyday lives.
O Heaux-ly Night Podcast | A Conversation on Love and Rage | 2021
Healing and Justice Conversation Series featured in McCormick Theological Seminary
A conversation on "The Gospel Inside" hosted by the podcast Being Church in the Time of COVID-19 | Princeton Theological Seminary | September 2020
Publications
“Transformative Education: Perils and Peral” in Higher Ed in Prison Manual, a forthcoming publication by Bloomsbury Publishing, co-authors Mel Webb, Phd. and Jia Johnson, MA.
Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education in Presbyterian OutlookCreative
Healing and Justice Conversation Series featured in Reimagining Justice and Safety by Harvard Radcliffe
Christian Science Monitor | Article "Today’s Underground Railroad: From Jail to Freedom with Education
Personal Blog jiajohnson.com
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