Brennan Center for Justice

Theodore (Ted) R. Johnson is a senior advisor at New America, leading its flagship Us@250 initiative. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post.

Ted is a retired U.S. Navy commander, and prior to New America, he was a senior fellow and senior director of the Fellows Program at the Brennan Center for Justice as well as a research manager at Deloitte. He’s a proud HBCU graduate of Hampton University and holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and Northeastern University.