Intersections

Elisabeth Johnson is a Brazilian-American violinist, musician, and artist based in Chicago. 

Given her disability as of the last 4 years, dealing with a neurological disorder and slow recovery from paralysis and neuropathy, their (re-in)vision(ment) hopes to incorporate past experiences performing music as well teaching music in Chicago Public Schools with the skills she developed for self advocacy in health community and career resources. 

Elisabeth Johnson intends to continue to be proactive in Queer, Crip, Latinx and Femme leadership and performance spaces.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Musicology/Violin Performance from Roosevelt University School of the Performing Arts. 

She is currently working toward an advanced certification as a Racial Healing Practitioner at Kennedy King College and a Fellow at the Disability Lead Institute. 

Elisabeth Johnson aspires to create initiative for collective accessibility within community, institutional, academic, socio-economic, gender and healthcare frontiers alongside diversity, equity and inclusion in education practices. 

They hope to integrate my background in education, explore the methods of Brazilian  philosopher and pedagogue, Paulo Freire, continue research needed for  disability and the strife for women rights, as well as perfect language skills in Portuguese and Spanish.