Megan Black Johnson

Co-Director, Common Good Program

Megan Black Johnson is a trainer, facilitator, and organizer. Born and raised in Iowa to a progressive, Catholic, service-oriented interracial family, Megan has spent much of her life trying to make sense of our differences and build bridges between them. She began her career as an organizer with an interfaith community organizing group working to end predatory lending, reform immigration policy, and end mass incarceration. Since 2010 Megan has worked with organizations like Interfaith America, Faith in Action, JOIN for Justice, and Western States Center to navigate the divisions created by race, religion, and politics, with a particular focus on the issues of antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and Christian hegemony. Megan earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. She now co-directs the Common Good program to counter antisemitism and protect democracy at Western States Center and regularly trains and facilitates bridge-building initiatives in her hometown and across the country. Megan and her husband Keith (an ordained deacon in the Episcopal church) are travel enthusiasts, casual cyclists, active in their Episcopal church community, and proud, exhausted parents of a toddler (Winnie). Originally based in Kansas City, Missouri, Megan and her family are temporarily located in Sewanee, Tennessee until May 2025.