Johanna Lewis (they/them) is an academic studying global histories of empire and colonialism, a community organizer fighting for racial and economic justice, a community based research advocate, a committed educator, and a queer femme parent.

They live and work in Toronto, on Dish with One Spoon lands that have long been stewarded by the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat, and are the current treaty territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies,
recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire:
Another world is possible.

— Aurora Levins Morales, excerpt from V'ahavta