Season 3 Episode 4: Tammy Johnson

Tammy Johnson is a dancer, producer, culture keeper, writer, equity consultant and godmother extraordinaire. Johnson directed living wage, welfare rights, public education and election campaigns as community organizer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has partnered with World Trust and spent a decade at Race Forward as a national organizer, trainer, writer, and policy analyst.

Johnson co-produced the television special Colorlines: Race and Economic Recovery with LinkTV. She was also the curator of creativesinplace.org, a listening project and digital platform that features the stores of Bay Area artists and their work.

Johnson specializes in raks baladi, also known as Egyptian style belly dance, and was a recipient of the 2016 Deborah Slater Studio 210 Residency Program and performed as part of ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization Mandala, a piece created by renowned performance visual artists Saya Woolfalk.

W: tjuniverse.com
IG: tammy.johnson.510

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