Rebecca O. Johnson, MSCED, MFA ’07 has returned to writing and consulting with grassroots social justice organizations and their intermediaries. Rebecca brings 40 years of experience organizing with and advocating for immigrant, refugee, and US-born women of color on social and environmental justice issues. Rebecca’s research and writing utilize participatory action research, oral history, and other forms of community history research to document the experience of dispossession in the United States.Published author of non-fiction works focusing on urban life, the African-American experience in the United States and environmental justice.Fund and Organizational Development Consulting:Providing fund and organizational development consulting services to grassroots progressive social change organizations throughout the eastern United States. Specializing in grassroots fundraising training, board development, and coaching and mentorship for those special people mostly running organizations as the only staff person.Adult and HIgher Education: Working with adult learners, from basic education through PhD level, in fund development, history of social services, participatory research and community economic development.Specialties: Non-Fiction, especially profiles, oral history and environmental justice; Organizational and Fund Development Consulting with emerging grassroots organiations;Post-Secondary Education: especially graduate courses in participatory research and the history of social services and health care