Lindsay Johnson is a 2025-2026 Teach Plus Leading Edge Educator Fellow. She is a 6th-8th grade art teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Illinois. She leads multiple extracurricular clubs and launched a “Visiting Artists Program” to connect students with creative professionals in their community. Lindsay has been a Fund for Teachers Fellow (2011, 2018, and 2023), NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow (2019), and a Qatar Foundation International Fellow (2023). She is on the Teacher Advisory Council for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and is a Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellow. Lindsay earned her BFA in visual communication from The University of Kansas, an MA in Teaching from National-Louis University, and an MEd in Technology in Education at National-Louis University. Lindsay’s work has been published in the Illinois ASCD Journal and she wrote a chapter in the book An Artist and a Mother, published by Demeter Press.
