Cassi Johnson

With two decades’ experience in nonprofits, healthcare, and government, Cassi Johnson (she/her) is an expert in helping communities solve big social problems with human-centered design and systems thinking. Cassi joined Software for Good after five years of nonstop innovation at the City of Saint Paul, most recently as Deputy CIO for Solution Design and Delivery in the city’s Office of Technology and Communications. In that role, Cassi led a team of designers and technologists as they reimagined the relationship between a city and its people — during a global pandemic. Cassi is passionate about the intersections of equity, intercultural competency, human centered design, and innovation and is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). In her free time she speed skates, parents, lifts heavy weights, and is a prolific paint-by-number painter.