Globalizing Gender with Natasha Johnson

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

In this two-part conversation, Natasha R, Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal specialist drafting reform legislation in the Solomon Islands, and as a director of education working to support homeless LGBTQ youth. She is skilled at creating arts-based programming that integrates human rights and social justice awareness in elementary through graduate school environments. She has also taught courses in law, ethics, policy, civic engagement, education, nonprofit leadership, business development, and more. in her scholarly roles, she has been a professor and a director of academic programs at multiple colleges and universities, including Metropolitan College, St. Joseph’s College, Adelphi University, and Medgar Evers College.

In 2015, she founded the nonprofit Globalizing Gender, an organization committed to creating a just world and preventing gender-based violence through capacity building, law, governance, and awareness. In 2018, she organized New York City’s inaugural march to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and was one of the lead contributors to a local statute that created a mayoral-appointed culturally aware task force on FGM/C, the first of its kind in the country.

After years of selfless work in diverse communities across the globe, Natasha is at an inflection point in her career and we’re fortunate to get a glimpse of how she’s approaching finding and settling in to a new next.

Where to find Natasha?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
Her TEDxFlatbush Talk on YouTube

What’s Natasha reading?
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Revelation of Dionne Daphne by Mara Brock Akil
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham

Other topics of interest:
About Flatbush, Brooklyn
About Brooklyn’s oldest High School - Boys and Girls High School
About the Solomon Islands
Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian peoples of the Pacific
Revist Glocal Citizen, Brigitte Perenyi’s own personal experience in the trokosi system
What defines Gender-based Violence?
What is FGM/C?
What is a B-Corp?
About Tower Records