Kirk Johnson

Kirk Johnson
Counsellor	Australasia 2010 - Present

Dr. Kirk Johnson is a Bahá’í currently serving as a Continental Counselor for Australasia.

Biography

Johnson was raised in western Maharashtra, India, where he attended a Bahá’í school. In 1979 he attended the Eighth Annual Bahá’í Children's Conference in India in Mahableshwar and visited a police station where he was able to spend twenty minutes speaking about the Faith to police officers.

Johnson moved to the United States when he was seventeen to attend University and completed an undergraduate degree in social sciences at Fort Hays State University in Kansas and he then completed two Master's Degrees in Sociology and International Development at Ohio University before undertaking doctoral research at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

After completing his PhD in the early 2000's Johnson began working as a Professor of Sociology at Guam University in the Pacific. In 2004 he became the Director of the Bali Field School which is a community development project operating under the University of Guam. In 2010 he was first appointed as a Counselor by the Universal House of Justice. In 2013 he represented the Universal House of Justice at a youth conference held in Apia, Western Samoa.