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Academically Censored
This program is a collaborative effort between San Jose Public Library and San Jose State University Library in honor of Banned Book Week 2025…
Join Dr. Amber Johnson for a discussion about the path to creating and exhibiting Transfuturism, an art exhibit that celebrates Black Trans joy, and ways to address academic censorship that stifles imagination, possibility, and futurity in a challenging political climate.
This is a hybrid event. If you are unable to attend in-person, please register here to receive the streaming
https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1717555357094/WN_C-btgl0dTdCvVh-qjMjrnw
About Dr. Amber Johnson
As a scholar, artist, and activist, Dr. Amber Johnson’s research and activism focus on narratives of identity, resistance, and social justice in digital media, popular media, and everyday lived experiences. As a leader, Dr. Johnson is a fierce advocate for health equity, healing justice, equitable community engagement, and radical imagination.
Dr. Johnson is Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff in the Division of Equity & Inclusion at UC Berkeley. They are also the Founding Director of the Justice Fleet, a mobile social justice museum that fosters healing through art dialogue and play, and co-founder of The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, where they specialize in humanizing equity and exploring the relationship between healing justice and equity.
As a former award-winning Professor of Communication and Social Justice at Saint Louis University, Amber has earned a number of awards rooted in their research, art, and activism. Notable awards include the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, the Norm White Award for Engaged Scholarship and Service, the Dr. Terry Leet Researcher Award from Generate Health for scholarship that centers social justice, the Faculty Excellence Award for Diversity and Social Justice, a Presidential citation for social justice work within and beyond the Communication discipline, and several publication awards.
Dr. Johnson’s forthcoming book, A Great Inheritance, is a young adult fiction novel and memoir project written to help people better support and love gender expansive people. The manuscript follows five children charged with dismantling the gender binary and eventually, the genetic economy.