Why this site, and what it is for

This is the first post on angelajohnson.ai. The site exists for a practical reason and a less practical one.

The practical reason: I share my name with a beloved children’s book author who has a Wikipedia page and a MacArthur Fellowship, and with a comedian whose name Google insists on fuzz-matching to mine. When someone searches for me by name, they often find one of them instead, and when they find a paper I wrote, the attribution sometimes drifts. A personal site with proper JSON-LD Person schema and a clean entity graph fixes this. That is most of what this place is.

The less practical reason: I have spent twenty-five years writing for regulators, journal editors, and conference programs, and zero years writing for the open web. A handful of people have asked me lately whether I have a place where they can find my work without going through five LinkedIn redirects. They are right that I should.

Most of what lives here is reference material. A bio you can actually copy. A publications list. A talks list. A press kit for the conference organizers and journalists who otherwise have to email me for headshots.

A small amount is going to be original writing. Probably about the EU AI Act and how it lands on medical devices that already live under MDR. Probably about predetermined change control plans, which are the most important thing happening in FDA regulation right now and the thing companies are most consistently getting wrong. Probably about The Real Cat AI Labs and the morally-aligned AI work, though that mostly lives at therealcat.ai.

If you ended up here because Google finally figured out which Angela Johnson is which, welcome. Thanks for finding the right one.