Angeline F. Johnson
Hometown:
Toledo, Ohio
Connect: LinkedIn
Angeline is excited to work alongside her ERC host agency to advance work that will focus on maximizing community impact. She will provide support in identifying how to best utilize available resources to address critical components that contribute to the economic well-being and vitality of their community through the lens of affordable housing, childcare, and regional transit.
Angeline F. Johnson is a native of Toledo, Ohio and graduate of Toledo Public Schools, the University of Toledo, and the University of Southern California. Her personal and professional passions center around work that addresses socioeconomic disparities related to race/ethnicity and income in urban communities. Angeline has a 25+ year career that has centered on service to neighborhoods and communities. She has worked for both nonprofit and governmental entities where her responsibilities involved building relationships not only with senior-level organizational and political leadership, but also with community residents at the grassroots-level to further community progress.
Angeline is the founder and principal consultant of Community Connections Consulting Services (C3S Consulting). C3S is a boutique consulting firm that provides one-on-one support to governmental, non-governmental organizations, nonprofit, and for-profit entities working to improve the quality of life for individuals, children, and families in the United States as well as internationally.
She is also the founder of The Leadership Think Tank (TLT2). TLT2 is a leadership training and advocacy organization. Through the education, mobilization, and coordination of local community leadership, TLT2 serves as both an amplified voice and a strategic vehicle to empower and embolden local, national, and international issue advocates to address critical social issues that are negatively impacting their communities.
ERC Project
Project Title:
Breaking down barriers for economic success: affordable housing, childcare and regional transit in Kansas
Host Community or Region:
Kansas
Host Organization:
Greater Wichita Partnership
Collaborating with the Greater Wichita Partnership, the initiative focuses on removing barriers to economic success across housing, childcare, and transit in Wichita, Kan. The project addresses challenges hindering sustainable and inclusive growth, including insufficient access to affordable childcare, inadequate transit infrastructure, and a scarcity of affordable housing options, all of which puts pressure on working parents and strains on the workforce’s financial stability and mobility. The ERC Fellow, working with key stakeholders like the City of Wichita, Child Start, and Wichita State University, will research and implement solutions and leverage funding opportunities such as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The fellow will establish models addressing these issues, benefitting Wichita and serving as examples or models to scale for other communities across the state facing similar challenges. Envisioning tangible, research-informed strategic goals and fostering economic empowerment, holistic project outcomes include improving quality of life by centering on equity to foster upward economic mobility for community stakeholders in the city and beyond.
Interested in supporting this project or learning more? Contact the ERC program team here.
