Kathleen Johnson

Degrees/Credentials: MA/PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; BA Social Thought and Political Economy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professional Interests: Workplace diversity with a special focus on disabilities, leadership, civic engagement, and pedagogy.

Professional Background: Executive member of family-owned business; previously served as director of the Community Research Center at KSC; Educational consultant for Deliberate Thinking; Editorial reviewer for management journals including Scientific Journals International and the Journal of Managerial Issues

Awards: Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Honorary member, Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society

Key Professional Work:

• Presentation: Self Worth and Shifting Identities of Workers with Disabilities, presentation, Harvard Business School, 2017.
• Journal: Website barriers to employment for people with disabilities. (Couture, co-author), Journal of Business Diversity,* 2017.
• Anthology: Disability Discrimination at Work. Williamstown, MA: Piraeus Books, LLC. (2014)
• Journal: The persistent disadvantage facing mothers working in gender-neutral occupations. (Karen A. Couture, co-author), The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 16, No. 1. (2011)

Personal: life-long vegetarian