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Education
Dr. Michelle Johansson is a Polynesian educator, academic, mother, and theatrical creator who has dedicated her career to establishing the Black Friars theatre group. Her organisation aims to re-story Pasifika in the world's largest Polynesian metropolis, to activate our heritage literacy, to develop future leaders, and to provide daring spaces for our young people to walk tall in both of their worlds. Dr. Johansson urges young islanders to utilise their voices to speak up about issues that affect them and their families, as well as to take on leadership roles.

Young Brown Scholar's
Dr. Johansson is mainly known for her creative writing peace Young Brown Scholars Where she emphasises the tendency for Pasifika peoples' performance in this area to be undervalued, where practises derived from deep and inherent cultural literacies may be mislabelled as "natural" talents.

she also produced a piece called  10 pieces of advice to the teachers of young brown scholars where she states, “Know that you are in the presence of warriors. They have fought. They are fighting. There are battles behind their eyes; and you cannot possibly understand the arms they bear, the scars they wear. Don’t make the classroom another trek behind enemy lines. Sometimes they need a soft place to land, a safe space to stand, someone willing to understand. And if this is not the lesson you planned? perhaps it is the lesson YOU need”.