Chris
Sugar Land, Texas, United States
Ritchie Johnson is a Mother, Registered Nurse, Author and Advocate. She is the Founder and President of the Chris “CJ” Johnson Foundation, Inc., a 501(c) 3 non-profit charity organization. She holds a BSN from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. She obtained her MBA from California College for Heath Services in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has spent the past 10 years as an advocate for renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) and organizing fundraisers. The majority of her experience as a nurse was in Women’s Health and Healthcare Leadership. She has 51years experience as a registered nurse with 26 of those years in Healthcare Leadership.
As an advocate for RMC, she has been featured in the New York Times, GMA3, KPRC 2 “Houston Newsmakers “, Fort Bend Herald, Fort Bend/Southwest Star, UT MD Anderson Promise Magazine, Fox 26 KRIV Houston and several neighborhood magazines. She is a published author of “Mama I’m Tired” A Mother’s Journey Through Her Son’s Cancer Battle with Renal Medullary Carcinoma.
She resides in Sugar Land, Texas and because of her youngest son’s death from RMC, she has dedicated her life to advocating for patients that have been diagnosed with RMC and offering support to their families.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose