Jazzy Johnson

Director for the Chicago Urban Program

As a social justice educator and facilitator, Jazzy Johnson has extensive experience in teaching and challenging people from a broad range of backgrounds to engage in issues of social identity, reconciliation, coalition building, organizing campus community, and deconstructing oppressive systems around them. During her undergraduate years at Nortwestern University, she was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community and helped found the Sustained Dialogue Program. For two years, Jazzy chaired the Coalition of Colors, a coalition of the university's largest cultural and sociopolitical groups on campus.

Urbana Year