Toni Johnson is CEO and founder of Mission OutLoud, which uses creative communications strategy and content to unleash clients’ voices and cut through the noise. She is on the finance committee for the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and was recently communications director for The Schmidt Family Foundation. In 2020, she edited the “Impact Investing Handbook” for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. And previously in her role as head of knowledge and influence for the Heron Foundation, Toni designed and implemented the foundation’s long-term public influence and engagement strategy. She is a former deputy editor and staff writer for the Emmy-winning website of the Council on Foreign Relations. She spent nearly six years focusing on energy, the environment, religion, and global health.

Toni also spent four years as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly, where she covered a range of legislation. Her work has appeared in numerous major publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Global Post, the Huffington Post, Business Insider, and Oil and Gas Magazine. She has covered events ranging from fights over Kyoto compliance, food and energy price surges, and HIV in Africa to Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima crisis. She was awarded journalism fellowships with the International Reporting Project in 2009 and the East-West Center in 2010. Toni received her Bachelor’s degree from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and her Master’s in international journalism from American University.