Consulting & Thought Leadership

Angela Shanté Johnson is an award-winning author, multi-hyphenate creative, and fierce advocate for diversity & inclusion in education and in the arts. With almost 20 years of experience in education and advocacy work, Angela is focused on using her voice and platform to support, highlight, and make space for marginalized creatives in publishing. Angela offers a wide range of support options for individuals, teams, and larger organizations, including:

Publishing Services (company)

• DEIB - programming, planning, and strategic planning

• Executive/leadership coaching

• Marketing planning/support for DEIB initiatives/campaigns

• Editorial planning/support for DEIB initiatives/campaigns

• PR planning/support for DEIB initiatives/campaigns

• Brand partnerships and collaborations for DEIB initiatives/campaigns

• Book doctoring and developmental editing

• Editing/writing (NOT ghostwriting)

• Authenticity reading/training

Publishing Services (independent)

• Various AUTHOR services and mentorship

• Book coaching/developmental editing (NOT copyediting)

• Authenticity reading

  Educational Consulting (company/School)

• Curriculum planning/instructional design

• Teacher training/coaching

• Professional development

  Author offerings

  (Free & Fee-base options)

• Big FREE Book Fair (year-long project)

• Author visits, read aloud, etc.

• Writing Residency - Creative Writing, playwriting, etc. (residencies range from 1 month+ and end with a culminating project/book/performance)

• Reading/Writing workshops (for children/adult learners)

• Book Clubs (focus on BIPOC and marginalized voices)

Founded to support publishing initiatives focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. With a growing list of consultants, Angela Johnson & Co. is focused on making space for BIPOC voices, stories, and creatives in publishing. Our mission is to support, pitch, and plan measurable/strategic initiatives that move us (ALL) toward a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive publishing industry.

DEIB Publishing Resources:

Where to start:

• Lee & Low Baseline data 2015

• CCBC Diversity Statistics (1985-Present)

• Publishing Paid me spreadsheet

• Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.

• THE “GREAT PUBLISHING RESIGNATION” EXPOSES THE FAILINGS OF THE INDUSTRY

Articles:

• Inside the push to Diversify the Book Business

• 'There Are Tons of Brown Faces Missing’: Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts

• DEI Assessment tools

• How to Distrupt the Publishing Industry and Do Better

• Diversity and Inclusivity: A Guide for Indie Authors

• Diversity and Inclusion in Publishing: Who gets to tell what story

• Diversity In Book Publishing Isn't Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too

• Understanding Meyer's Diversity Tool

• Transparency with DEI inatives

• Meyers Diversity Spectrum Tool

• How to instill DEI culture from the ground up

• DEI & Culture Transformations

• The Road to Meaningful Change with a DEI-Driven Culture

• Rethinking Diversity in Publishing

• #BlackoutBestsellerList on Social Media Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing

• The arts world is facing a fierce reckoning about diversity. But is it too late?

• Just How White is the Book Industry?

• Why Publishing Is So White

• Diversity In Book Publishing Isn't Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too

• Diversity and equality in academic publishing: the case of educational leadership

• A lack of diversity in publishing is hindering innovation (academic)

• The giant plan to track diversity in research journals