Jen White-Johnson

Jen White-Johnson (she/they) is an Afro-Latina disabled and neurodivergent art activist, designer, and educator whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving, emphasizing redesigning ableist visual culture. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educate, bridge divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience.

Jen has presented her activist work and collaborated with brands and art spaces across print and digital, such as Coachella, Target, and Adobe. Her photography and design work has been featured and written about in Art in America, Juxtapoz Magazine, AfroPunk, The Washington Post, and most recently, After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution, and is permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in DC. In 2020, she was an honoree on Diversability’s D-30 Disability Impact List. Jen has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives in Baltimore, MD, with her husband and 11-year-old son.