Deidre Johnson is the CEO and Executive Director of the Center for African American Health, dedicated to empowering the Black community through education, collaboration, and advocacy. She is an ASCEND Aspen Institute Fellow and a Highland Leader with The Highland Project, a Transformative Leadership for Change Fellow, a Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Livingston Fellow, and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Denver, University College Nonprofit Leadership Program. A Denver native, Johnson holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Yale School of Management. She has two sons, Noah and Jordan, and a dog, Zulu.