James H. Johnson, Jr. (Jim)

Dr. Johnson. is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the UNC-CH faculty, Johnson was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he spent the first twelve years of his professional career. His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, urban poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues. Dr. Johnson was selected by Fast Company magazine as one of the “17 … brightest thinkers and doers in the new world of work.” He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. His latest book is “Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles.”