Erin-Elizabeth Johnson

Managing Editor, Publishing

Washington Office

Education

B.A. in comparative literature, Yale University; M.A. in security studies, Georgetown University

One Page Bio

Overview

Erin-Elizabeth Johnson is the managing editor at the RAND Corporation. She has more than 20 years of communications experience in a variety of fields, including defense and military affairs, international development and security, and education. She began working at RAND in 2007 as a research editor and was soon collaborating with researchers to devise communications strategies, unify content, and create compelling messages. As a communications analyst, she developed print, online, and multimedia materials to support projects, promote research findings to a broad audience, and increase public understanding of RAND's mission.

Before joining RAND, Johnson was an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led business development for a foreign affairs department and managed projects funded by the Navy. As a consultant, she worked closely with the Marine Corps to develop the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate's first investment plan and with the Navy to define the Sea Shaping pillar.

Johnson graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in comparative literature and from Georgetown with an M.A. in security studies. Her master's thesis was on Chechen small arms and light weapons. In 2013, she completed a professional certificate program in graphic design.

Research Focus

Selected Publications

Isaac R. Porche III, Bradley Wilson, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, "How Do We Deal with a Flood of Data?" Future Force, 1(2), 2014

Isaac R. Porche III, Bradley Wilson, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Shane Tierney, Evan Saltzman, Data Flood: Helping the Navy Address the Rising Tide of Sensor Information, RAND Corporation (RR-315), 2014

Lindsay Daugherty, Rafiq Dossani, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Cameron Wright, Families, Powered On: Improving Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Through Technology, RAND Corporation (RR-673/5), 2014

Lindsay Daugherty, Rafiq Dossani, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Cameron Wright, Getting Early Childhood Educators Up and Running: Creating Strong Technology Curators, Facilitators, Guides, and Users, RAND Corporation (RR-673/4), 2014

Lindsay Daugherty, Rafiq Dossani, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Cameron Wright, Getting on the Same Page: Identifying Goals for Technology Use in Early Childhood Education, RAND Corporations (RR-673/1), 2014

Lindsay Daugherty, Rafiq Dossani, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Cameron Wright, Moving Beyond Screen Time: Redefining Developmentally Appropriate Technology Use in Early Childhood Education, RAND Corporation (RR-673/2), 2014

Lindsay Daugherty, Rafiq Dossani, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, Mustafa Oguz, Using Early Childhood Education to Bridge the Digital Divide, RAND Corporation (PE-119), 2014

Howard J. Shatz, Erin-Elizabeth Johnson, The Islamic State We Knew: Insights Before the Resurgence and Their Implications, RAND Corporation (RR-1267), 2015

Commentary

How Do We Deal with a Flood of Data?
Despite the value of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, the amount of data they generate has become overwhelming. If the Navy does not change the way it processes information, it will reach an ISR “tipping point”—as soon as 2016.
Jun 23, 2014 Future Force

Publications

Report
Cyber Power Potential of the Army's Reserve Component
Describes the availability of personnel with cyber skills in the private sector and the number of Army reserve component soldiers available to support the Army's cyber mission needs.
Jun 15, 2017
Report
Tactical Cyber: Building a Strategy for Cyber Support to Corps and Below
This report proposes a strategy for tactical Army cyber operations, enumerating overarching goals, objectives, and associated activities. Instructive case studies are provided that support implementation of the strategy.
Mar 28, 2017
Report
The Islamic State We Knew: Insights Before the Resurgence and Their Implications
This report provides information known before 2012 about the Islamic State's finances, organization, methods of creating territorial control, and response to airpower. The group's history can inform components of a successful strategy to defeat it.
Sep 28, 2015
Report
Families, Powered On: Improving Family Engagement in Early Childhood Education Through Technology
The authors describe barriers that hinder family engagement in early childhood education and ways technology might help -- empowering families to become better educators at home, and strengthening connection and communication between school and home.
Nov 17, 2014
Report
Getting Early Childhood Educators Up and Running: Creating Strong Technology Curators, Facilitators, Guides, and Users
The authors describe efforts that might be helpful in creating confident, knowledgeable providers of early childhood education who can help ensure appropriate, intentional, and productive use of technology among young children.
Nov 3, 2014
Report
How Much and What Kind? Identifying an Adequate Technology Infrastructure for Early Childhood Education
The authors examine how stakeholders might collaborate to (1) define what constitutes an adequate technology architecture for the purposes of addressing the digital divide in early childhood education and (2) help ensure that it is realized.
Oct 20, 2014
Report
Moving Beyond Screen Time: Redefining Developmentally Appropriate Technology Use in Early Childhood Education
The authors challenge the traditional emphasis on screen time as a measure of "developmentally appropriate" technology use by young children and discuss how to move toward a more comprehensive definition.
Oct 8, 2014
Report
Getting on the Same Page: Identifying Goals for Technology Use in Early Childhood Education
Technology use among young children is on the rise, but technology's role in early childhood education (ECE) is still in debate. The authors offer ways to move past that debate and identify several potential core goals to guide technology use in ECE.
Sep 22, 2014
Report
Data Flood: Helping the Navy Address the Rising Tide of Sensor Information
The authors explore options for solving the Navy's big data challenge, considering changes across four dimensions: people, tools and technology, data and data architectures, and demand and demand management.
May 1, 2014
Report
Using Early Childhood Education to Bridge the Digital Divide
Many low-income children lack the same access to technology as their more-advantaged peers. This Perspective explores the role of early childhood education in ensuring that low-income children can access technology and learn how to use it.
Mar 3, 2014
Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 3, Winter 2012-2013
Stories discuss the promotion of tolerance and critical thinking in the Arab world through children's media, the challenges faced by the United States in an era of fiscal austerity, and promising models for measuring teacher performance.
Feb 5, 2013
Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 2012
The cover story focuses on nine key issues in the 2012 U.S. presidential election: income inequality, health care costs, immigration reform, energy options, education, al Qaeda, Iraq, democratization in the Middle East, and China.
Sep 21, 2012