Alicia Johnson is the deputy director of Legal Aid of Western Missouri (LAWMO). She started her legal aid career as a staff attorney doing family law and bankruptcy work for one of LAWMO’s rural offices in St. Joseph, Missouri. Alicia then spent two years as the managing attorney of the St. Joseph office, and, six years ago, she became the deputy director of LAWMO. Before coming to legal aid, Alicia taught for two years at St. Augustine’s College in Cameroon, Africa. She worked with the students there to start up the first school newspaper in that region and she created a “book donation” project that built up a small library for this school. Before moving to Cameroon, Alicia worked as a bankruptcy practitioner for a law office in Kansas City. Alicia and her husband, Chris, enjoy traveling and, of course, cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs!