Tavona Johnson
Home Care Giver, SEIU Executive Board member
Tavona Johnson has been a Home Care Worker for 20 years, but a lifelong caregiver for her family and her community. Tavona joined SEIU in 2020 to help her fellow care workers fight to receive their hazard pay for being on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Tavona has actively supported her fellow care workers through working with the union to reach tentative and collective bargaining agreements, speaking at the Capitol, and fighting for workplace rights. As a member of the SEIU Executive Board, Tavona helps decide on issues to bring to the capitol for members.
“I’m trying to solve problems so that people like me don’t have to go through the same things I went through,” she says.
Tavona was born in Kansas City, KS and grew up in Minneapolis. She spends her “free” time volunteering—is active with We Go High, a local organization working on political empowerment of Black women, and will be attending the AFL/CIO Member-to-Candidate training program this summer, to prepare for a run for office.