As a scholar-practitioner, Quodesia explores the relationships between culture, human connection, systems, healing, and belonging. Her scholarship, facilitation, and service are informed by ongoing learning through travel, curiosity, and respectful engagement with cultural practices and histories. She is the owner and chief consultant of Quo Johnson Co Project, LLC, a collaborative consulting practice born of her personal mission to support people, disrupt oppressive systems, and connect, heal, and transform organizations and systems.

Quo currently collaborates with organizations of local, national, and international impact. She serves as social justice advisor of OPERA America, a role created for her, where she is at the forefront of change toward greater justice in opera in the United States, making opera history by creating designing, organizing, and facilitating OPERA America’s first Racial Justice Opera Forum and shifting how the field approaches justice and collaboration. Quo is the company culture consultant for The Dallas Opera, having developed and guided the company’s cultural shift to a culture of equity and belonging. She is the founder and space moderator of Black Administrators of Opera, making history by establishing a national community and convening and facilitating an annual symposium in partnership with opera, museum, and cultural organizations. She is the creator, content curator, and cohost of Taking the Stage with Kristian and Quo™, an international program that deepened conversations at the intersection of art, culture, equity, justice, business, and wellness.

Quodesia’s Connect. Heal. Transform Framework is at the core of her approach to facilitating workshops and healing circles, delivering keynotes and guest lectures, and coaching organizations toward deeper curiosity and connection. Quo has made meaningful impact as the racial equity coach and racial healing practitioner for Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, working with Broadway Dallas, Big Thought, Swan Strings, Union Hope, and Solar Preparatory School for Girls of the Dallas Independent School District towarda radically inclusive Dallas. She helped develop award-winning arts-integrated curricula as the social-emotional learning and EDI consultant for Junior Players and has served as equity, diversity, and inclusion committee chair of Bishop Arts Theatre Center.

The Dallas local is a trained Rx Racial Healing Circle™co-facilitator, Storytelling Blanket™ co-facilitator, Public Voices Fellow of TheOpEd Project, and participant in the American Express Women in Music Leadership Academy, in partnership with Creative Center for Leadership (CCL). Quo is a proud Prairie View A&M University graduate and earned her MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College.

Her writing has been published in HowlRound Theatre Commons, OPERA Magazine, Piano Magazine, The Fulcrum, and Visible Magazine. Her transformational work has been featured in Van Magazine, OPERA Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Art and Seek, among others.

Quo believes that we all deserve spaces that reflect, support, challenge, affirm, and celebrate who we are and all we are capable of becoming. Her life’s work is committed to making this a lived experience for as many people as possible.