Saved by Grace: In Living Color - Volume Ii (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781664132566)

Rosetta Johnson is a fifty-nine-year-old single parent, born and raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where she currently resides with her twenty-year-old daughter, Shadasia Rose. In addition, she is inspired by her two sisters, Minister Darlene Marie Johnson and Missionary Daphene Ann Johnson, both bona fide Christian women of faith. Rosetta is the daughter of the late minister Rose Marie Johnson. She attended the Asbury Park public school system and then later obtained two associate's degrees from Brookdale Community College in 1999 on criminal justice and social science. She also has a general law enforcement diploma from the NCS correspondents' school and a master's degree in criminal justice from Monmouth University in 2004. For ten years, she worked for the City of Asbury Park, New Jersey, as a program monitor and neighborhood preservation program director. As a program monitor and director of these programs, she wrote grants and worked with the State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD). Because of a bad motor vehicle accident, she retired in 2008. Rosetta also worked for Shadow Lawn Bank as a property manager for years, and in addition to everything that was mentioned, after acting as a school latch key teaching instructor for the YMCA, Rosetta also created the city's energy maintenance network, which assisted people who couldn't pay their utility bills in 2001-2008. Rosetta has been president of the United for the Community nonprofit organization since 1991. The organization's primary role and function is to address secondary Issues in the southwest of the city with regard to improving the residents' quality of life. Rosetta was very active in politics and was selected as an intern with Sen. Barack Obama's administration. She was stationed in Virginia in early 2008. Afterward, she decided to return home to run for city council in her hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey.