Leadership
Co-Founder
& Executive Director
Doug Johnson brings strategic insight and operational discipline to the DNA Foundation leadership team.
With a focus on long-term sustainability, Doug supports the foundation’s growth initiatives, partnership development, and structural integrity. His role centers on ensuring that programs are not only mission-aligned, but scalable and financially responsible.
Doug works closely with leadership to help position DNA Foundation for grant readiness, corporate partnerships, and expanded regional impact. His perspective strengthens governance, sharpens strategy, and reinforces the foundation’s commitment to stewardship.
At DNA Foundation, leadership is not symbolic—it is active, engaged, and accountable. Doug’s contributions help ensure that impact is both meaningful today and sustainable tomorrow.
Douglas Johnson
Co-Founder
& Executive Director
Akilah Love founded DNA Foundation with a clear conviction: access changes everything.
What began as a vision to support under-resourced communities has grown into a multi-region initiative serving Accra, Atlanta, Toronto, Nova Scotia, and Bridgetown. Akilah leads the foundation with a focus on practical impact—ensuring that education, health, nutrition, housing, and mindset mentoring are not abstract ideals, but lived realities.
Her leadership is rooted in sustainability. Every dollar raised is reinvested directly into programs and long-term regional development. Under her direction, DNA Foundation continues to build strategic partnerships, expand its footprint, and create measurable pathways to opportunity.
Akilah believes that transformation happens when communities are empowered—not rescued—and her work reflects a deep commitment to dignity, accountability, and generational change.