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Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Emory University Integrated Memory Care, a primary care clinic tailored to the care of persons living with dementia and their families. Dr. Bonds Johnson is the Principal Investigator of the DECIDE Research Lab at Emory University, which focuses on creating culturally tailored decision-making programs to improve the quality of life of families of African American persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a bachelor of science in nursing in 2007, earned a master of science in nursing from Vanderbilt University in 2012, and received her doctoral degree from Oregon Health & Science University in 2019. In 2021, Dr. Bonds Johnson completed her postdoctoral training at Emory University. Her research focuses on improving the quality of life of African American persons living with dementia and their family care partners, as well as improving the communication between these families and their primary care providers.