Reonna Johnson is vice president and director of marketing and business development at RPA, an independent agency in Los Angeles. On top of her day job, she’s spent recent weeks spearheading an initiative that’s encouraging agencies to put more Black people in leadership.
The push is an extension of Three’s A Crowd, a two-year-old creative collective she co-founded made up of roughly 150 Black professionals who work in advertising, production and entertainment.
Johnson describes Three’s A Crowd as a safe space, one where members can be among people “who understand what it’s like to be the only one in the room.” It regularly hosts “soul sessions,” dinners where they can “vent and let their hair down” while sharing accomplishments or discussing microaggressions they’ve experienced.
According to Johnson, the group has aimed to increase Black leadership at agencies for quite some time.
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