[5] The club was started with the objective of giving guidance and opportunities to children whose lives had been disrupted by the recent Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002).
[3] When Sepp Blatter was pressured to step down as head of FIFA, Johansen was touted as a possible successor in the press.
[16] In June 2021, after an 8-year stint as president of SLFA Johansen withdraw from an upcoming election, with her reasons being that her new role in the FIFA Council would demand her travelling globally and playing a higher level and more active role as a global ambassador for football and FIFA.
[21] On 12 March 2021, she was elected into the FIFA Council after defeating Burundian Lydia Nsekera, who had held the position since 2013, by 28 votes to four during the CAF General Assembly.
This made her the first West African woman elected into the council and the first Sierra Leonean to join the 37-person team.
[2] She founded the Pink Charity Fund to combat breast cancer in 2006[2] and the Women of Excellence Awards.