Mirma Johnson-Majors

Mirma has been in the museum field for over two decades - and has worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Alexandra Historical Society, National Civil Rights Museum, Albany Civil Rights Movement Institute, and is currently the Director of Education at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. She received her academic training at Bank Street College (MS.Ed) In Museum Leadership and Howard University (BFA,) in Fine Arts.

In addition, Ms. Johnson has also taught high school courses in the History of Museums and Registrar Methods at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, college World History and African Diaspora at Albany State University and Western Art and Humanities at Anne Arundel Community College and is currently an adjunct in the Museum Studies Department at Morgan State University. She has held many positions on boards and advisory groups, such as Arts Everyday, Fredrick Douglas Isaac Myers Maritime Museum, and The Georgia Council on the Arts as well as One World Cultural Arts Center. Mirma served as a grant reader for Georgia Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Council, Jackson Mississippi Arts Council the Maryland State Council for the Arts and as a reader for the MetLife grant administrated by the Smithsonian Institution.. She is also a member of Phi Delta Kappa National Sorority Gamma chapter (professional African American women educators' sorority) and on the board for Archeology in the Community.

Mirma joined the staff at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in June of 2006 and is excited to be a member of the Baltimore community! Her family includes one daughter Alexandra Jones a Maryland archeologist, and P.J. Jones a local student. She enjoys baking, cooking, and watching the Home Garden Network.