Amber Johnson

Amber Chevaughn Johnson is a Black woman scholar pursuing the mundane and everyday invitations for personal and collective liberation and living. As a former middle school educator and current Ph.D. candidate, she explores the multidimensionality of Black folks' lives and the ways they produce space and knowledge. Crossing disciplinary boundaries to explore the interplay between history, Black geographies, Black feminisms, and education, Amber's work explores the intimacies of space, the speculative, and spirit as it concerns Black education, generally, and Black women, specifically. As such, her aim is to produce work for Black folks who hold truths about their lives and their worlds in the bellies of their being, but whose souls forage for language in the dark places. Currently, Amber is working on her dissertation which explores intergenerational Black knowledge (re)production stewarded by Gullah Geechee women in the South Carolina Lowcountry and its interplay with the introduction of "formalized" education for formerly enslaved Black folks immediately following the Port Royal Experiment during the Civil War.