Megan Russell Johnson is a Program Officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, working in the foundation’s priority place of Michigan to support thriving children, working families and equitable communities.
Russell Johnson co-leads the foundation’s place-based team, co-directing both strategy and investments. She provides expertise across all aspects of the grantmaking process, including evaluating grant proposals, conducting background research, preparing funding documents, monitoring grants, fostering community connections, and providing grantee customer service. In this role, she also serves on the larger Michigan place-based team, developing programming priorities and identifying and nurturing opportunities to affect positive change for children and families within the state.
Most recently, Russell Johnson served as an associate program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, where she worked with a national $10 million portfolio of more than 80 grantees focused on education and afterschool programs. She was also an adjunct faculty member in the English and Social Sciences departments at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek. Earlier, she was also a Program Director at Handson Battle Creek.
Russell Johnson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Albion College and a Master of Public Administration from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in education foundations and policy from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.