Jia Johnson

Jia Johnson is a mind-body coach, intuitive energy healer, shaman, creative educator, grief tender and social justice entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Freedom Dream Collective, LLC, a dynamic coaching and consulting firm dedicated to fostering the holistic wellbeing of mission driven individuals, communities and organizations. In recent years, she served as the founding director of the Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education (SBI) at McCormick Theological Seminary, a higher education in jail program. She served as an SBI adjunct, facilitating learning opportunities at the intersection of personal and social transformation at the Cook County Department of Corrections. Jia holds a Master of Arts in Public Ministry from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is a certified mind-body coach, shamanic Reiki practitioner, grief tender, intuitive counselor and training to be a meditation practitioner and nusta paqo (shaman) of the Apaz family lineage of the Qero Nation in Cusco, Peru.