Brya Johnson, Msw, Cd, Pmh-C Email & Phone Number

• Promote and support Food Is Medicine programs in accordance with OFS's mission and goals. • Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to directly serve participants in a variety of initiatives that address the intersection of food insecurity, maternal, perinatal, infant health and other systems• Coordinate care with other team members and community partners

St. Louis, Mo, United States

Abundant Spirit Birth Services focuses on providing full-spectrum doula care to whoever needs the support. Both in-person and virtual services are available to ensure clients are able to access life-saving doula care. Services are provided through a Reproductive Justice framework to shift the conversation from mortality to vitality through focusing on solution-based, community care.

Major Care™ connects new parents with virtual certified postpartum doulas to provide affordable and accessible remote care.

Greater St. Louis Area

Following the Jamaa Birth Village mission, I worked to provide clients with full spectrum doula services including prenatal visits, labor & delivery support, and postpartum care.As Program Coordinator, I worked closely with the executive director and administrative assistant to enroll clients in suitable services for their needs. I maintained the logistical aspects of programming and helped to create a home visiting program for expectant families. I created and maintained the Jamaa’s Herbal Apothecary social media pages. I achieved a growth of 700 Instagram and 800 Facebook followers from October 2019 to February 2020. I created graphics for various social media campaigns to ensure that necessary knowledge was being disseminated to the general public.

Greater St. Louis Area

FLOURISH St. Louis is an initiative powered through Generate Health. They work to reduce infant mortality in the St. Louis area through targeting specific areas (e.g. Prenatal Care, Behavioral Health, Transportation, etc) to reach their goal to achieve zero racial disparities in infant morality by 2033. The Community Leaders Cabinet works to identify, prioritize, and establish strategies to be implemented in the St. Louis region to reach the North Star: zero racial disparities in infant mortality by 2033.

I offered patients the highest quality, compassionate emotional care as they make a deeply personal decision regarding their lives, bodies and safety. I ensured that I remained knowledgeable of the Hope Clinic policies and procedures to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct for the benefit of the patients and clinic. I assessed patients for emotional, physical or mental abuse and make appropriate referrals when necessary.

· Working to develop and implement community organizing campaigns in various communities in collaboration with other staff and interns· Tabling and petitioning for signatures for NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri at events and in various communities· Working with staff to develop a plan to reach out to underrepresented communities and communities of color to engage with individuals about the pro-choice movement in Missouri

· Working in collaboration with my supervisor, I crafted my learning activities to focus on research, program design, and implementation; Gained additional training in other areas such as, grant-writing· Researched the effectiveness of college access programming for parents of middle school students; Utilized an equity framework to design and draft programming based on best practices from the research· Added capacity to the school through completing various other projects such as, working with middle school aged alumni, drafting an Americorps grant proposal, and creating fact sheets

Greater Seattle Area

· Designed weekly lesson plans focused around math and reading with the collaboration of a partner teacher. Successfully completed 900 minutes with each student over the school year.· Designed, wrote and edited “The Shore”, which was a monthly newsletter to provide faculty and staff with updates on City Year’s goals throughout the school year· Designed, delegated, and created “Country of the Month”, which was a monthly bulletin board to inform and engage students with information about differing cultures and countries· Facilitated a whole corps dialogue surrounding Post Mortem Media Violence and the supposed necessity of circulating images of the pain of marginalized communities

Seattle, Wa

We work to provide social justice related resources to the entire corps. In my sub-committee, we are working to coordinate a social justice database for the use of the entire corps. During our Martin Luther King Jr. service day, we provided social justice related presentations for the corps, volunteers, and City Year alumnus.

Master'S Degree, Social Work

Concentration: Domestic Social and Economic Development

Bachelor’S Degree, Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: Students Against Sexism in Society, Allied Blacks for Liberty and Equality, Sisters of ExcellencePresident.

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas