Brian C. Johnson

Brian honors the struggles and accomplishments of the ordinary citizens who launched the Civil Rights Movement by committing himself personally and professionally to the advancement of multicultural and inclusive education.

He serves as a faculty member in the Department of Developmental Instruction at Bloomsburg University and is the Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence. He is a founder of the Pennsylvania Association of Liaisons and Officers of Multicultural Affairs, a consortium that promotes best practices in higher education. He is a former trainer with the National Coalition Building Institute and was certified in their prejudice reduction and controversial issues process modules. He is a featured columnist on the Antiracistparent.com website. He also has professional experience in social and human services.

Brian earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from California University of Pennsylvania, and has completed the necessary coursework toward a doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern University. His research is in the area of white student racial identity development. Brian is the author of We’ve Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training (2009) and co-author of Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook (2008).

Brian, an ordained minister, serves on the ministry team at Revival Tabernacle in Watsontown, PA where he is a church elder, youth minister and a team leader for the Tabernacle Players, the church’s performing arts troupe. In August 2009, his book, Sintimacy: The Christian’s Love Affair with Secret Sin, was published by Revival Nation Publishing.