Zakiya Carr Johnson
BWDW Program Director and Founding Director of Black Women Disrupt
Zakiya Carr Johnson is a social inclusion, diversity and equity expert and strategist with extensive experience in international development and over 20 years shaping international policy. Prior to founding ODARA Solutions, LLC and launching the Black Women Disrupt Initiative*, she served as Senior Advisor and Director of the Race, Ethnicity and Social Inclusion Unit in the U.S. Department of State, co-chair for the White House Inter-Agency Committee on Gender-Based Violence Monitoring and Evaluation and Senior Technical Advisor for the Social Inclusion Trust Fund at the Inter-American Development Bank. Zakiya is a proud alumni of Howard University School of Communications. She is trilingual, studied at the University of São Paulo in Brazil where she lived for several years serving as Youth and International Advisor at Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra.