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ZCCD 







ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.



 
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL
CENTRE DETROIT



COMRADES /


Precious Johnson


LEADERSHIP /
Sadza Space C0-Chair
Board of Directors
2025 - 

Precious Johnson is an experienced grants and fundraising professional, cultivating support from foundation, corporate, and government donors. Prior to joining the City of Detroit as a fund development officer, she served as a grants officer at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), raising funds for operations, exhibitions, capital projects, and a portfolio of Asian arts and educational initiatives. In research and institutional compliance roles at nationally-recognized organizations, including the Georgetown University Medical Center, the Erikson Institute, and Friends of the Children, she gained valuable experience coordinating nimble, cross-departmental collaborations to advance human wellbeing.

Inspired by the philanthropic legacies of Julius Rosenwald and Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Precious aims to foster partnerships that make significant, long-term investments in education, arts and culture, and environmental and neighborhood initiatives that enhance our collective quality of life, improve conditions in disinvested communities, and celebrate our shared humanity while honoring the more-than-human world.

A proud graduate of the James Kanada Fellowship facilitated by Strategic Community Partners, she has channeled her passion for environmental and spatial justice towards establishing and managing a community orchard as well as completing an Advanced Training Certificate in Ecopsychology (2025), Michigan Conservation Stewardship Program (2023), and Urban Roots Community Garden Leadership Program (2022). In addition, Precious serves as a contributing editor of Barbed Magazine as well as a writer and advisory board member for Essay’d, a platform spotlighting the Detroit arts and culture ecosystem.

As an artist and arts writer, she explores embodiment and change; the construction of self; the ways costuming and textiles shape identity formation; and masquerade traditions, both sacred and secular, in ritual dance practices.