Neco Johnson, PhD, is the evaluation and impact manager for the Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement. He leads evaluation of the Collaborative’s research, education, and community partnership work and helps document and measure WashU’s community engagement in support of its application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
Before joining the Collaborative, Dr. Johnson was a mixed methods analyst at the Brown School Evaluation Center, where he evaluated community-based programs across St. Louis and supported the evaluation of Here and Next, WashU’s strategic plan. Earlier, he worked in the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity and the Office of Research and Analytics in the Division of Student Success.
He holds a PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from WashU, where his research focused on college student adjustment. His earlier research examined neurocognitive outcomes in stroke and sickle cell disease, including racial disparities among stroke survivors. Outside of work, he grows produce for local food access organizations and is developing okra suited to St. Louis’s changing climate.