Jenee Johnson

Jenee Johnson

Creating Racial Equity and Trauma-Informed Workplaces

What You'll Learn

• Hear about the pioneering work in mindfulness and trauma happening in the public health sector

• Explore what it means to have a trauma-informed perspective, and how organizations can benefit and flourish with this lens of healing and resilience

• Look at the role that mindfulness can play in creating equity and justice, and follow along in practice to connect with what's important now

About Jenee Johnson

Jenée Johnson is the Program Innovation Leader: Mindfulness, Trauma, and Racial Equity at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). Jenée leads the unique effort to bring mindfulness into public health practices and programs through the Trauma Informed Systems of Care Initiative. Jenée initiated a partnership with Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute to improve the organization’s ability to manage change, stay resilient, inspire growth and become a mindful culture in this important process. For the past 15 years Jenée served as the director of the Black Infant Health Program, a prenatal intervention addressing infant and maternal mortality. While there she introduced the mindful practice of “Quiet Sitting” at the beginning of all group sessions. The practice is now standardized statewide in the Black Infant Health curriculum. She is also a coach and consultant at Sankofa Holistic Counseling Services. She is passionate about forwarding mindful practices in the Black community to help people cultivate resilience, joy and heal from trauma.