Shontavia Johnson

Shontavia Johnson

  • pop culture expert, attorney

Shontavia demystifies complex legal and business principles by drawing from pop culture and everyday examples.

A respected attorney and author, Shontavia has been featured on CNN, Fortune, Fox News and NPR. She is published in law reviews including the Berkeley Technology Law Review and the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. Her article on trademark law and the internet was named 2014’s best in the world by the International Trademark Association. In 2016, Shontavia was named one of  America’s Top 40 Young Lawyers by the American Bar Association.

Shontavia is the associate vice president for academic partnerships and innovation at Clemson University and CEO of business consultancy firm Johnson International Group.

  • “…memes have become ways that we share ideas across geographical boundaries, social boundaries and ethnic boundaries. So what we have to do is have some level of self-awareness to recognize when we are being scoped out to be the next human host of a meme because memes are desperate to be shared online and while memes may be driving humanity, we get to decide whether we want to be the vehicle for memes to do so.”
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