Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson is the Co-Executive Director of Dignity and Power Now, a licensed acupuncturist, and seasoned organizer who was born and raised in Los Angeles County. As a founding member of DPN, Mark-Anthony facilitated and led the organizations two campaigns, including the fight to establish an independent civilian oversight commission over the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and to stop jail construction in Los Angeles County. He is a member of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table Leadership Team and the Founder of the Frontline Wellness Network (FWN); a project of DPN that organizes health care providers working to end the public health crisis of incarceration and criminalization through action oriented political education and through bridging relationships between providers and grassroots campaigns against state violence. In this capacity he is a member of the Executive Team of the JusticeLA Coalition, a Los Angeles based coalition that successfully stopped the County from spending $4 billion on a women’s jail and a mental health jail while reallocating those funds into community-based treatment and alternatives to incarceration.