Marissa Jenae Johnson (born 1990/1991[2]) is an American activist who attained notoriety when she interrupted U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at an August 2015 rally in Seattle.

[3][4] She is a founder of a Seattle-based justice group called Outside Agitators 206,[5] which was disbanded when she became a cofounder of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter around September 2015.

[6] Johnson had been noted in media outlets in Seattle and beyond for her engagement[5] and disruption of public meetings before the Sanders incident.

[2] Johnson has said that she once supported Sarah Palin as a national political candidate, and criticized "white liberal" people for being like Rachel Dolezal.

[16] The Seattle BLM chapter of Black Lives Matter has been criticized while under Johnson's leadership for allowing anti-Semitic remarks at rallies in the vicinity of Uncle Ike's Pot Shop in Seattle, whose owner was accused of gentrifying a traditionally black neighborhood.