Alexis McGill Johnson on Paving a Path for Planned Parenthood’s Future

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson is a self-described “movement baby" as her parents fought for racial equality during the civil rights movement. As an adult, she mixed pop culture with civic engagement to turn out young voters of color. Even though she credited her success to the women who raised her, she wasn’t specifically thinking about the role of gender in social justice issues. Then she walked by a billboard in SoHo depicting the dire state of reproductive health care for Black women. It quickly became all she could think about. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Alexis shares: Her go-to bagel order as a certified Jersey girl The biggest lesson her mom taught her about community organizing Why a Princeton professor thanked her after she called out his racial prejudice How she finds time to plan for the future of the org with so much uncertainty Her secret to getting people to see her perspective on politicized issues like abortion

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0:00.0	I remember coming to the team at some point right after Dobbs I was like the
0:05.8	Supreme Court doesn't get the last word we do like let's stop saying that the
0:09.1	Supreme Court is it right they and all that in a bag of chips, we are.
0:17.0	I'm Carly Zekeen, and I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:20.0	Welcome to 9-to-5-ish with the skin.
0:22.0	We've run into so many questions over. Welcome to 9 to 5-ish with the skin.
0:22.6	We've run into so many questions over the years
0:25.6	and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:28.9	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:32.4	And that's what we're bringing you at this show.
0:34.0	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career
0:37.0	by talking to the smartest leaders we know.
0:40.0	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5.
0:44.6	All right, let's get into it.
0:47.8	Hi everyone today.
0:49.1	Our guest is Alexis McGill Johnson.
0:52.4	She is the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood
0:55.4	Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
0:59.5	both of which are leading organizations
1:01.4	for reproductive health and education in the US.
1:04.8	Growing up, Alexis says she was a movement baby.
1:08.0	Her parents were deeply involved in civil rights organizing.
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