About: Johonna McCants
Profile:
Johonna McCants is founding director of the Visions to Peace Project. She is an educator, scholar, and organizer whose research and practice focus on Black youth activism, violence against youth, and incarceration and criminalization. She received a 2007 Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship from the Open Society Institute to launch the Visions to Peace Project. As the founding director of Visions to Peace, Johonna has conducted research on transformative justice and community-based responses to violence; developed and facilitated workshops for youth organizers and educators on holistic anti-violence praxis; and designed and implemented youth leadership programs integrating peace education, media production, performing arts, and trauma healing.
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