Alexis McGill Johnson

Alexis McGill Johnson is the president and chief executive of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. A political and cultural strategist, she previously co-founded and led the Perception Institute, a consortium of researchers and advocates studying the effects of implicit bias and racial anxiety.

She has taught at Wesleyan and Yale, served as executive director of Citizen Change, and writes and speaks on reproductive rights, bodily autonomy and the role of culture in political change.