Dr. Janice Johnson Dias

Author of ‘Parent Like It Matters’, Associate Professor of Sociology, President of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation

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Janice Johnson Dias, Ph.D. holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University with a specialization in urban and political sociology. Her funded research focuses on mothers and children has appeared in the top-ranking policy and social science journals. She is a tenured associate professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and president of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation, a New Jersey-based training institution with a focus on public health and social action that she co-founded in 2011. Dr. Johnson Dias currently lives in West Orange, New Jersey, with her husband, Scott Dias, their daughter Marley and dog Philly. In March 2021, she published her first book with Ballantine Books/Random House, Parent Like It Matters: How to Raise Joyful-Changemaking Girls. It summarizes her life experiences and offers practical tips on how caregivers can raise children who are devoted to social justice.