Corey G. Johnson is a Tampa Bay Times investigative reporter with a focus on accountability journalism in governmental and private agencies. A native of Atlanta, Corey is a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, whose mission is to increase the ranks, retention, and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting, and a graduate of a prestigious HBCU in Florida A&M University. From being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 because of his reporting on deficient school earthquake safety in California to uncovering the injustice in California prisons that had female inmates sterilized without approval, Corey has been a hidden leader in today’s society within his field: making him the perfect person to sit down and get to know.