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LA Johnson

LA Johnson is an art director and illustrator at NPR. She joined in 2014 and has a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design.

  • On A Mission To Race The Middle School Brain
    How do you pedal a 200-pound pink brain — made of rubber, foam and steel — up 45-degree hills, through thick mud and water without breaking? These middle schoolers have eight months to figure it out.
  • Art teacher Jimi Herd and his kindergartners.
    Our First Web Comic: A Great Teacher, Illustrated
    NPR Ed's first web comic is about a great art teacher who believes art can teach his students how to build their dreams, and change the world.
  • Jonathan Kozol looks back on events he wrote about 50 years ago, in Death at an Early Age, that reveal how an elementary school treated black children in 1960s Boston.