Lucas Lorenzo Johnson

Lucas Lorenzo Johnson is a global leader in conversations about shaping public life and building community across lines of difference. He has been shaped by his time learning from veterans of the civil rights movement in the U.S., and by his work with human rights activists around the world, especially in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. He has deep experience in the lived philosophy of nonviolence, conflict transformation, and community organising. 

Lucas was a leader in the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, organising against mass incarceration, the militarisation of policing and the drug war in the U.S. He also led IFOR’s International Secretariat in the Netherlands, supporting nonviolent human rights defenders around the world and defending the right to conscientious objection to military service at the UN in Geneva. 

In 2018, Lucas joined the award-winning media and public life organisation, On Being. He led the organization’s work focused on social healing until last year. He continues to collaborate with On Being, and he also regularly consults with groups in conflict and in support of initiatives focused on democracy and depolarisation.