Rae Johnson (they/them)

Rae Johnson PhD, RSW, RSMT (they/them) is a social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae’s approach to their work is informed by decades of frontline work with homeless youth, women in addiction recovery, psychiatric survivors, and within queer communities. Prior to their current appointment as a professor in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rae served as the co-chair of the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-psychologies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. As the Director for Curriculum and Faculty Development, Rae played a key role in developing the Embodied Social Justice Certificate, an online program that brought together hundreds of thought leaders, practitioners, and community change agents and helped to shape the emerging field of embodied social justice work. Rae is the author of several books, including Embodied Social Justice (Routledge, 2018) and Embodied Activism (North Atlantic Books, 2023).