Jasmine McGinnis Johnson is a visiting fellow in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. She is also an associate professor in public administration and public policy at the George Washington University. Johnson's research interests include the democratization of philanthropy, the effect of board networks on funding, and the changing nature of human resource issues in nonprofit organizations.

Johnson’s academic accomplishments include publications in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, International Public Management Journal, Public Management Review, Administration and Society, and the Review of Public Personnel Management. Johnson attained her doctorate in public policy in a joint program between Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked as a development and evaluation senior manager in the nonprofit sector for several years.