Gina Johnson Email & Phone Number

Gina Johnson focuses on improving knowledge management and data-informed decision making in postsecondary education through coaching and co-designing frameworks that empower organizational leaders to reimagine their data and analytics efforts and enhance their knowledge management capacities at scale. Her work has helped organizations and institutions rethink how they manage data, information, and knowledge.Previously, Gina served as a Senior Associate at NCHEMS, where she assisted intermediary organizations envision knowledge management and co-developed practical frameworks to actualize those visions. While serving as the Assistant Executive Director for Partnerships & Membership at the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Gina empowered data and analytics professionals to reimagine and enhance their capacities to engage in sophisticated data-informed decision making. She developed strategic partnerships for the IR/IE community, including collaborative work with EDUCAUSE and NACUBO, bringing together IT, Business and Finance, and IR/IE leaders to engage in collective institutional analytics improvements. Much of Gina's work has focused on the potential for data-empowered storytelling to decrease equity gaps at minority-serving institutions and for military-connected students.Gina has over 25 years of experience in the field of education, including consulting, association management, institutional research leadership, teaching, and policy analysis. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a focus on Quantitative Methods in Education, from the University of Minnesota, and holds an M.A. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from Winona State University. Gina volunteers in the education and therapeutic horticulture programs at the Denver Botanic Gardens and serves as an Older Youth Program Mentor through Denver CASA.