Stacii Jae Johnson

Johnson was born in Inglewood, California, but was raised in Orange Mound in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from Spelman College as a Drama Major. After college she moved back to Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, as a fan of Martin Lawrence, she found work on the set of the sitcom Martin as a production assistant, receptionist, and cast member. Her work with Lawrence landed her the role of Peaches in the comedy A Thin Line Between Love and Hate in 1996. She played supporting roles in comedies Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) and Da Hip Hop Witch (2000). She founded her own production company, Mama Said Productions.

Back in Atlanta to help care for her sick mother, Johnson became a political campaign fundraiser (political bundler). Serving on Hillary Clinton's 2008 regional finance committee, she founded the group "Young Professionals in Atlanta for Hillary" and co-founded "Generation C." During the campaign of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Johnson was one of his major fundraisers. She eventually joined Reed's administration and became his Entertainment and Special Events Director and entertainment adviser. She also raised money for the re-election of President Barack Obama and served as an Obama Victory Trustee.

In 2012, Johnson was arrested for speeding and drunk driving. Even though the drunk driving charges were dropped, they triggered a scandal. Her 2004 instructional video titled I Want To Strip For My Man But I Don’t Know How... Unleashing the Naughty Girl In You! became the pretext for a media debate on whether she was fit to be a fundraiser for Obama. She was eventually forced to resign from her job in mayor's office.

After overcoming depression, Johnson created Black Girls Radio on WAEC, Love 860 AM. It was the first African American girl talk radio show in Atlanta created by a black woman for black women. She also became a radio host at CBS Radio, WVEE "V-103". She left the station in 2015 to pursue a career as a motivational speaker and author. Johnson created The Single Girls Club, a community to provide a support system for single women, including the first-ever conference planned specifically for the single girl. She also created the 1,000,000 Single Women Challenge, a solidarity movement to have 1 million single women accept a pledge reshaping the negative stigma attached to being a single woman.

Her life experience landed her a role on the 2015 reality TV show From The Bottom Up, a docu-series created by Nicci Gilbert and executive produced by Queen Latifah, which followed Johnson and five other women with stories of success and scandal. The original cast returned for the second season in 2016.

She wrote and self-published the book Date, Girl: 143 Reasons Why I Believe Women Should Date Multiple Men, where she dissects the notion of "multiple dating" to help single women learn to date more confidently. In 2013, she became Associate Publisher for Who's Who In Black Atlanta.

Johnson was included among the top 25 most influential women in Atlanta in 2014 by Rolling Out Magazine.

She was awarded the Audi Forward Achievers Award 2015 for her work as a radio personality at Atlanta's "V103" and her community involvement with the Single Girls Club.

She received the 2012 InfluenceHER Award and the 2012 Powerpreneur Next Award.

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