Annette McGee Johnson is Global Legal Counsel for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Annette obtained her professional degrees in the state of Oregon, where she earned her B.A in International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College. She later graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law. Post-law school Annette clerked for the Honorable Cheryl Albrecht with the Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland. Subsequently, she returned to her birth country, Liberia, and worked there for several years, contributing to post-war peacebuilding efforts. As part of a research team, she developed instructional texts for magistrates throughout the country, with the James A.A. Pierre Judicial Institution at the Temple of Justice, Liberia’s supreme court. She then served at the Ministry of Justice, tasked with establishing the government’s first juvenile diversion program, channeling children from the formal justice system to community-based intervention.
