Odis Johnson

Odis Johnson, Jr., PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of Policy Research and Evaluation at Educational Testing Services (ETS). At Johns Hopkins, Odis is also the Director of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational and Mixed Methodologies and Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. Odis's prior experience includes a role as a professor of sociology and education at Washington University in St. Louis. Their scholarly work focuses on the intersections of residential stratification, racial inequality, and social policy, earning notable accolades such as the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and awards from the American Educational Research Association and Emerald Publishing. Odis currently leads the Fatal Interactions with Police Study and several NSF-funded projects aimed at examining the impacts of policies on race-gender representation in education and policing.