About

Monica McKelvey Johnson is a comix zinester, community organizer, curator, and mama living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University (BA), and CUNY Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts Program (MFA), where she authored the webcomic The Adventures of Dorrit Little, a story about the average student debtor in the United States today, and founded the student debtor support group, EDU Debtors Union. She has written about comics for The Rumpus and The Comics Journal, and has co-organized several exhibitions—including Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic ArtTake Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up, and Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural and Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century. She is currently Executive Director of Booklyn, Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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