Khalid JohnsonCommunications Specialist

Khalid Johnson (He/Him) serves as the Communications Specialist for the Department of African American Studies. He received his B.A. in fine art from Young Harris College and his M.F.A. in sequential art from SCAD’s Atlanta Campus.

Over his educational career and years since, Khalid has worked across different forms of media from web-development to illustration and cartooning; having taught the latter on a seasonal basis at SCAD’s Summer Seminar program. He has a passion for storytelling and brings that to his position as a part of the AAS staff at Emory.

In his free time, Khalid is typically working on comics, or reading them. He volunteers, reviewing comics for the Comics Beat and his interests encompass and extend to liberation both within his work as a cartoonist and outside of it.