TEAM T-N-T

CARE FEATURED SPEAKERS: Natasha Johnson Edd Thaddeus Johnson, PhD!! This workshop will immediately follow the Philly Backyard Breeding presentation. TEAM T-N-T

Fines and fees are often framed as an accountability tool. In practice, they can operate as revenue extraction—deepening poverty, widening racial inequity, destabilizing families, and making it harder for people to keep or recover the animals they love. This session connects criminal legal fines and fees to pet policy and animal welfare systems, examines the laws and practices that worsen harm, and highlights reforms that replace punishment with support.

Dr. Natasha N. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Augusta University Augusta University College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Research, Counseling & Curriculum. A career educator since 2001, she brings more than two decades of K–20 experience as a teacher, guidance counselor, assistant dean, instructional leader, and curriculum developer in the United States and abroad. Her scholarship centers on critical theory, equity, and social justice leadership, with additional interests in intersectionality, educational law, policy, governance, and curriculum development. Dr. Johnson is a David L. Clark Scholar, CETLOE Faculty Teaching Fellow, IGI Global Scientific Publishing Ambassador, and Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education Leadership Fellow whose work appears in scholarly and public venues.

Dr. Thaddeus L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and a board member of CARE. A former law enforcement official in Tennessee, his scholarship focuses on policing, crime control, governance, street violence, algorithmic bias, and correctional control. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports, as well as the Taylor & Francis Routledge book Deviance among Physicians: Fraud, Violence, and the Power to Prescribe. His work has appeared widely in national and international media.

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dr. Natasha N. Johnson and Dr. Thaddeus L. Johnson!! 
This workshop will immediately follow the Philly Backyard Breeding presentation. Fines and fees are often framed as an accountability tool. In practice, they can operate as revenue extraction—deepening poverty, widening racial inequity, destabilizing families, and making it harder for people to keep or recover the animals they love. This session connects criminal legal fines and fees to pet policy and animal welfare systems, examines the laws and practices that worsen harm, and highlights reforms that replace punishment with support. Dr. Natasha N. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Augusta University’s Department of Research, Counseling & Curriculum. A career educator since 2001, she brings more than two decades of K–20 experience as a teacher, guidance counselor, assistant dean, instructional leader, and curriculum developer in the United States and abroad. Her scholarship centers on critical theory, equity, and social justice leadership, with additional interests in intersectionality, educational law, policy, governance, and curriculum development. Dr. Johnson is a David L. Clark Scholar, CETLOE Faculty Teaching Fellow, IGI Global Scientific Publishing Ambassador, and GAWHE Leadership Fellow whose work appears in scholarly and public venues. Dr. Thaddeus L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and a board member of CARE. A former law enforcement official in Tennessee, his scholarship focuses on policing, crime control, governance, street violence, algorithmic bias, and correctional control. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports, as well as the book Deviance among Physicians: Fraud, Violence, and the Power to Prescribe. His work has appeared widely in national and international media. #thankstomaddie #CAREgathering2026 #humanandanimalwellbeing