Vida Johnson
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
2022
Vida B. Johnson is an Associate Professor of law at Georgetown Law where she teaches in the criminal defense clinics. She writes about policing and criminal procedure. Before her work at Georgetown Law she worked at the Public Defender for the District of Columbia where she was a Supervising Attorney in the Trial Division. Prior to that she was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law. She received her law degree from NYU and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
