Carol Johnson arrived in Santa Fe four decades ago as an Indian Health Service nutritionist tasked with crisscrossing the state to give cooking demonstrations to hospital kitchen crews in Native communities and promote healthy meals in schools.
She retired 25 years later to focus on other passions: pushing to strengthen civil rights and sharing her expertise with organizations that feed the region’s youth.
Nowadays, Johnson, 77, is focused on creating new nighttime child care services to aid sin