Jennifer White-Johnson

[Image Description: Gold centered text on a black background with gold confetti reads, “The D-30 Disability Impact List. Below, centered black text in a gold box reads, “2020 Honoree”. Below, left, white centered text reads, “Jennifer White-Johnson”. Below, centered in a gold box, black text reads, “United States”. To the right, a color headshot of Jennifer with a white outline. In the bottom left corner, the white Diversability logo with “#D30DisList” centered below in white text.]

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Jennifer White-Johnson (she/her)

Professor of Visual Communication at Bowie State University

USA

Put simply, Jen White Johnson cares deeply about Black Disabled Lives, especially furthering neurodivergent advocacy through vibrantly vital displays of Black Autistic Joy. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educates, bridges divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her autistic son’s experience. Jen’s Neurodiversity Solidarity Symbol is wallpapering the globe as protestors bear this powerful arm at marches and rallies. Her Neurodiversity Anti-Racist Graphic continues to rapidly spread online. The impact of this protest art is yet to be measured in full, but it is easy to predict that these logos will be remembered and archived as monumentally iconic and historical in their efficacy in ensuring that Black disabled people own presence in the streets and parasocial streams. Learn more about her work.