Deepest Intent

Rev. Deborah L. Johnson is the founder of Inner Light Ministries (https://www.innerlightministries.org/) an omnifaith spiritual community in Santa Cruz, California and founder of the newly forming Unleashing Our Future cultivating capacities, compassion, and connections. A dynamic public speaker, DEI trainer and consultant, organizer, strategist, facilitator, and spoken word artist, she is known for her ability to bring clarity to complex and emotionally charged issues. 

Her clients have included Apple Inc, AT&T, Kaiser Permanente, Hewlett Packard, MCA Universal, and the CDC. A co-litigant in two California landmark civil rights cases, her life-time social justice work has been featured in numerous multi-media venues. For such she has received many life-time achievement awards including induction into the Morehouse College MLK Jr Chapel’s Board of Preachers and being an inaugural New Thought Walden Award honoree for Spiritually Guided Activism.

A member of Delta Sigma Theta and author of “The Sacred Yes” and “Your Deepest Intent,” Rev Deborah serves on the Leadership Council of the Association of Global New Thought. A founding member of the Agape International Spiritual Center, she holds a BA from USC, an MBA from UCLA, a ministerial degree from the Holmes Institute, and an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from Agape University. Her passion is healing socio-political cultural divides and building “The Beloved Community.” Wherever she goes, her message is one of possibility, inclusion, empowerment and transformation.

Rev. Deborah is a keynote speaker at "Celebrating Our Soul - Consciously Creating Change" at Unity Village, Missouri on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Find out more information at padntg.com