Andre Johnson

Dr. Andre L. Johnson, a native Detroiter, is currently the Founder/President/CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project Incorporated, a trailblazing multi-service non-profit agency that provides a wide spectrum of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services to the city’s recovery community.

Dr. Johnson has consulted on behalf of the United States President’s Emergency Plan Against AIDS Abroad to the Department of Ministry of Health in Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar, Tanzania. He was appointed by Kathleen Sebelius, former U.S. Secretary of Health Human Services to serve a three-year term (2015-2018) as a National Advisory Council member for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment/Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration and was appointed by U.S Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Dr. Miriam E Delphin-Rittmon to serve as a member of the SAMHSA National Advisory Council again in 2023. The United States President Barack Obama recognized Dr. Johnson as the “2016 Champion of Change for Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery” at the White House.

Dr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Morehouse College, a Masters of Arts degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix, and a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology from Michigan School of Psychology. He has taught Addiction Studies and Mental Health classes at Wayne County Community College and authored a book, Recovery Ecosystem.