Poseidon Desalination Plant in Huntington Beach with Hans Johnson

Hans Johnson is a nationally renowned advocate and guide of winning coalitions. His practice in Progressive Victory builds diverse and stable organizations, shapes informed opinion, engages voters, and achieves sustainable breakthroughs in public policy.

In 2020, Hans directed advocacy to win protection in California law for the livelihoods of professional interpreters and translators. From 2017 to 2020, he trained advocates in key states of Michigan and Wisconsin to spot and stop disinformation and worked successfully to end the Trump Administration’s cruel and inhumane denial-of-care rule. From 2012 to 2016, he applied strategies from his work on LGBT and immigrant rights to lead the successful environmental-justice campaign to pass California’s landmark statewide ban on throwaway plastic bags and preserve it in 2 ballot measure victories over the plastics industry.

Hans is a former board vice chair of the National LGBTQ Task Force, where he served for 10 years.

He appears regularly on Spectrum News. His commentary runs in USA Today and major news outlets throughout California and the country, including the Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, Seattle Times, and Sacramento Bee. He lives in Los Angeles.