Daniel K.N. Johnson is a professor of Economics at Colorado College, where his research focuses on public policy impacts, and his teaching emphasizes the use of innovation and entrepreneurship to enhance the morality of markets. In the past, much of his work was abroad: his work in Brazil focused on empowering small-scale adaptive innovation; in India, the emphasis was agricultural productivity and reduced agrarian indebtedness; in Myanmar, he taught innovation and entrepreneurship to former political prisoners. However, in recent years his priorities have shifted to racial injustice and social inequities within the U.S., with research and policy advocacy around food security, the health and educational impacts of the pandemic, bail reform, jury bias, protest policing, AI and algorithmic bias, and resource allocation inequities within government program budgets.
