Community Coalition
Leslie Johnson has extensive experience in community organization and development, currently serving as the Chief Culture Officer at Community Coalition since March 2009, where previous roles included Development Director and Development Coordinator. Prior to this, Leslie worked as a Communications Assistant for the LA County Board of Supervisors from June 2000 to November 2007. Educationally, Leslie holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree with a focus on Community Organization, Planning & Administration from the University of Southern California, obtained between 2004 and 2007, and a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the same institution, completed in 2000. Leslie is a graduate of Immaculate Heart High School, attending from 1990 to 1996.
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Community Coalition
Our Mission: To help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy. Who We Are: Community leaders, including U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, founded Community Coalition as a non-profit organization in 1990 in response to the 1980's crack cocaine epidemic that devastated South LA. The goal was to provide preventative community-centered solutions to the drug problem. Community Coalition works with African American and Latino residents to build a prosperous and healthy South LA with safe neighborhoods, quality schools, a strong social safety net and positive economic development in order to reduce crime, poverty and substance abuse in our community.