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Amber Johnson, Ph.D., is an award-winning Associate Professor of Communication and Social Justice at Saint Louis University and co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity. Their work bridges academia and community activism through innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Creative Writing from The Pennsylvania State University (2006) and a Master of Arts from Saint Louis University (2002).
As a scholar-artist-activist, Johnson interrogates systems of oppression through narratives of identity, protest, and social justice across digital media, popular culture, and lived experiences. Their research employs intersectional autoethnography, performance studies, and critical communication to explore gender futurity, radical imagination, and embodied resistance. Johnson's mixed-media artistry—using metals, recycled materials, photography, poetry, and percussion—creates tangible spaces for healing and transformation.
Johnson's 15 most recent publications reveal dominant themes in social justice praxis, transfuturism, and decolonial communication, with consistent focus on Black and trans liberation movements. Their work strategically merges academic rigor with artistic expression to challenge oppressive structures.
Johnson's accolades include:
- Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for Black masculinity research
- Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship
- Faculty Excellence Award for Diversity and Social Justice
- Presidential citation for cross-disciplinary social justice impact
- Multiple article of the year and top paper awards
Johnson directs The Justice Fleet™—a mobile social justice museum featuring Radical Forgiveness, Radical Imagination, and Transfuturism exhibits that center Black trans experiences as heroic resistance. Their advising integrates community-based learning with critical pedagogy, though specific grant details remain undisclosed in source materials.
