Em Johnson
Founder & Director
Alan Waugh
Associate Director
Em and Alan lead using their own challenging childhood experiences to motivate their vision. They have both spent their lives working in leadership, management, counselling, and mentoring roles with youth/adults in detention facilities, Out of the Cold, drop-in centers for marginalized youth, churches, and even within the relationships of their own friends/family. Em has served as a relational advocate both locally/globally since a young age. She has a unique awareness for perspective and is passionate about helping people to be genuinely relational. Alan has been a social justice advocate for over 26 years, truly interceding for anyone in need no matter their situation or status. He is a natural and impassioned visionary who has a gift for recognizing and empowering people's potential! With their shared passion to enable others to genuinely engage their communities and to help others discover who they are through understanding others, it is a natural partnership for UrbanEx.
