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About Victoria L. Johnson, Ph.D.


Dr. Johnson was a Partnership Specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce (nine states) Philadelphia Region of the Bureau of the Census 2017-2020.

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In the 2010 Census, Dr. Johnson served as an Assistant Manager of Quality Assurance (AMQA) in a Local Census Office (LCO). As a Professor of Political Science for several decades, Dr. Johnson made frequent use of census data for research, grant writing, civic engagement, and instruction.
Partnership Specialists are responsible for planning, developing, and coordinating the partnership agreements with federal, tribal, state, and local governments and/or local businesses and community groups.
Dr. Johnson was hired as one of the first nine Partnership Specialists (Tier 1) of the Philadelphia Region who has trained additional staff as they were onboarded in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia and has served as the primary point of contact/liaison for highly elected officials, faith-based and community groups organized as Complete Count Committees throughout the townships, boroughs, and municipalities of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

While a doctoral candidate, she was a Graduate Fellow of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Upon completion of doctoral studies, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Northwestern University Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology (CISST) where she specialized in international security, non-proliferation, and Latin America. She received her doctorate from Tufts University after graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts. 
Her career as a public policy analyst and project manager for governmental and non-profit organizations in Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia are replete with results-oriented style, excellence, strategic planning, and implementation of initiatives in workforce development addressing child welfare, homelessness, poverty, and health and human resources, which has targeted services to the previously incarcerated.

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She credits her proven record of accomplishments and milestones to creating coalitions and teams with internal and external stakeholders maintaining a dedication to mission, vision, and purpose to improve the quality of life for all.

She is proud to have been a:


    Gear Up Liaison at Abraham Lincoln High School with Communities in Schools
    Truancy officer at Olney High School with Carson Valley Children's Aid Society
    Social Studies teacher at Germantown Settlement Charter Middle School
    Pennsylvania State Chair of the Workplace Bullying Institute
    Temple University Intergenerational Fellow with Women Against Abuse
    Public Policy Chair of Junior League
    Board member of Women Organized Against Abuse (WOAR)
    Co-Chair of the Hunting Park Community Garden as part of the 20-million-dollar upgrade of the 87-acre Hunting Park.

Personal and professional endeavors have afforder her opportunities to live, study and work in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, and Bahia. Dr. Johnson is a mother, grandmother, gardener, published author, and enjoys a good game of tennis.


References and publications can be sent upon request.

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