Stephanie Johnson
Ms. Stephanie Johnson is an Emmy award-winning journalist with more than two decades of media, integrated marketing, public relations, and crisis communications expertise. Ms. Johnson currently serves as Chief Communications & Kulture Officer, at Kulur Group, a diverse-owned challenger brand agency. Prior to her role at Kulur Group, Ms. Johnson served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Communications at the American Cancer Society (ACS), where she helped to reimagine ACS’s internal and external communications strategic blueprint, executive thought leadership platform, and crisis/issues management response protocols. Her efforts swiftly helped to re-conceptualize the nation's largest voluntary health organization’s ability to deliver compelling stories and messages aimed at advancing ACS's vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Prior to her role at ACS, Ms. Johnson served as Vice President and Communications Strategist for Hotwire Global, where she oversaw diverse integrated communications and marketing teams for some the world’s leading technology brands.
In the non-profit sector, Ms. Johnson spent nearly a decade at the American Medical Association (AMA), where she managed enterprise communications and national campaigns aimed at improving health outcomes in America. As Vice President of Communications and Product Strategies, Ms. Johnson helped to launch the Release the Pressure Campaign as a national rally cry— galvanizing the medical community to prioritize improving heart health in Black communities. Her efforts to improve health outcomes in the nation’s most historically marginalized communities has garnered national recognition, including features in Ebony Magazine, Essence Magazine, as well as appearances on People TV, the Roland Martin Show and The Breakfast Club. Ms. Johnson was also invited to present the first Science Innovator of the Year award to the Black woman scientist behind the development of the Moderna COVID 19 vaccine, during the Annual Ebony Power 100 ceremony.
Before working at AMA, Ms. Johnson served as Vice President of Public Affairs at Advocate Aurora Health where she oversaw media relations, internal communications, crisis communications, social media, and the health system’s consumer health website.
Ms. Johnson began her career as a journalist, serving as a segment producer for Good Morning America, and as an associate producer and researcher for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, in New York City. Additionally, she served as a freelance producer for the Chicago Bureaus of ABC News and NBC News, and as a TV news anchor, and reporter for 16 WAPT News, the ABC News affiliate station in her home state of Mississippi. Ms. Johnson graduated Summa Cum Laude from Jackson State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Speech and Dramatic Arts.
