Miche’le Johnson

Bio

Miche’le Johnson is a proud native of the South Side of Chicago with over a decade of experience across various educational settings —including elementary, community-based, and higher education.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate.

Her area of research explores the institution of the Black Church broadly and its enduring role as a counterspace to dominant narratives around learning, literacy, and teaching.

Miche’le engages oral history as a methodological approach embracing Black Feminist/Womanist epistemologies. This enables her transformational research by challenging dominant narratives in literacy education through the foregrounding of intergenerational Black religious literacy traditions.