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Rick Johnson
Vice President

Rick Johnson is a Vice President at Lake Research Partners, where he has designed, conducted and analyzed public opinion research for a number of clients. In addition, he has worked with candidates at all levels of the political process. His work at LRP has included in-person, online and phone focus group and survey research for clients including the Gery Chico 2004 Senate Campaign, AFL-CIO, Change To Win, and numerous other clients.

Rick joined LRP in 2004 after working for General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also worked as an independent consultant providing distribution and competitive intelligence research to European confections companies, for Market Facts (now Synovate) creating new market research tools, managing their diary business and managing their joint ventures, and for the Gallup Organization.

Rick served on the Minnesota Chicano/Latino Affairs Council by appointment from Gov. Jesse Ventura, the Stillwater, MN Human Rights Commission, was a Board member of Casa de Esperanza, a national domestic violence organization, was elected to the IL District 65 School Board in 2001, and was awarded Amnesty International's 1989 Ralph J. Bunche Fellowship, working on the abolition of capital punishment, diversity, helping to end torture practices, and working with student groups. Rick is currently serving on the Fairfax Virgina School Board's Minority Student Achievement Oversight Committee (MSAOC), and the Policy Committee of Alianza, The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence.

A native Chicagoan, he received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was recognized as one of the top 100 graduating students, and was the commencement speaker. He did his graduate work in public policy at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, and did graduate work at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.