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Ronald Byron Johnson, a Peruvian American political scientist, policy analyst, community organizer and historian.Ronald had a Roman Catholic upbringing. He studied at Saints Philip and James School from Kindergarten to eighth grade. He graduated from Notre Dame High School in 2014. He has been a lifelong advocate for humane reform strengthening labor rights, especially treatment of agricultural workers, and improving immigration policy and foreign relations. As a young boy living through the Great Recession of 2008, he became strongly attached to policy frameworks which safeguarded citizens from poverty like the New Deal by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, Share Our Wealth proposed by Louisiana statesman Huey Long, and the Great Society by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He studied international politics at the Pennsylvania State University and then went on to pursue graduate study in political science, policy analysis, and transnational history at Lehigh University. During his graduate study at Lehigh University, he had the opportunity to do an oral history project to archive the stories of Hispanic leaders of Bethlehem alongside Janine Carambot Santoro thanks to a grant from the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium. Ronald's academic focus has been Sinology, Sindhology, ASEAN studies, alongside diplomatic, economic, and military history. Ronald Johnson through his employment as a field organizer for the city of Allentown with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party helped re-elect the Congresswoman Susan Wild to the U.S House of Representatives alongside down ballot candidates up for re-election like Pennsylvania State Representatives Peter Schweyer and Michael Schlossberg, to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Ronald helped elect Josh Shapiro to become governor-elect of Pennsylvania, Nick Miller to the Pennsylvania State Senate, and Joshua Siegel to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Ronald became a dues paying member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 777. Ronald serves on the board for the Latino Leadership Alliance of the Lehigh Valley.