Quodesia serves her community near and far through her collaborative consulting practice, Quo Johnson Co Project, LLC, and a personal mission to supporting people, disrupting oppressive systems, and creating connections through truth and collective solutions. The creator, content curator, and cohost of Taking the Stage with Kristian and Quo engages an international audience in meaningful conversations at the intersection of art, community, business, and education through The Dallas Opera’s TDO Network, addressing challenges in the arts and organizational culture. As the founder and space moderator for Black Administrators of Opera, Quo has the honor of creating and engaging a unique and powerful community of administrators in the opera field who identify as members of the African diaspora working to create greater equity in the opera field.

Quo currently collaborates with organizations of local, national, and international impact to build a community committed to equity, belonging, and human-centered cultural practices. Through her collaborative consulting practice, she serves as company culture advisor of The Dallas Opera where she developed and guided the company’s work in culture shift; social justice advisor of OPERA America where she serves at the forefront of change toward justice in the opera field of the United States, making opera history in creating, designing, organizing, and facilitating OPERA America’s first Racial Justice Opera Forum; racial equity coach for Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation where she serves Dallas-based organizations with local and national impact; social-emotional learning and EDI consultant for Junior Players where she helped develop award-winning arts-integrated curricula; equity, diversity, and inclusion committee chair of Bishop Arts Theatre Center; and racial healing committee member of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation. The Dallas local is a trained Rx Racial Healing Circle™ co-facilitator, Storytelling Blanket™ co-facilitator, a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project, a proud Prairie View A&M University graduate, and earned her MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College.