Meet Jen White-Johnson

Jen White-Johnson is an Afro-Latina, disabled artist, designer, educator, and activist, whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. When her son was diagnosed as Autistic, she began to examine the absence of black disabled children in digital and literary media and started creating zines to give visibility to disabled children of color. Her advocacy work has been archived in libraries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts and has been featured in The Washington Post, New York Times, AfroPunk.

In 2020 she was selected as an honoree on the 2020 Diversability’s D-30 Disability Impact List. Jen is a Guest Lecturer of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota, and formerly an HBCU Design Professor of ten years at Bowie State University. MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.