Tamyah Arahe Johnson is a rising third-year Dean's List law student at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. She is a May 2024 Political Science summa cum laude graduate of the illustrious North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She was thoroughly involved with the pre-law chapter of the National Black Law Students Association all 4 years and became President her senior year. She led as a mentor, a Common Cause HBCU Democracy Fellow, and a research presenter on the intersections of leadership and morality at several national conferences. She was recognized as the most outstanding senior in her department's graduating class, and she is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Roadmap Scholars Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she was exposed to several areas of the legal field, including an in-house counsel internship at a Fortune 500 energy company and an internship in the Domestic Violence Unit at the Solicitor's Office in her home state of South Carolina.

Tamyah served as a summer clerk at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, through the American Bar Association (ABA) Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP). As a CALI award winner in Appellate Litigation, she is an avid Moot Court competitor with a passion for complex constitutional issues. Her research, conducted as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Barbara Jordan Policy Research & Survey Center, has been published in the International Journal of Judicial Law. During law school, she also gained experience in civil litigation and heirs' property work. She is passionate about public service and hopes to become a professor later in her career. In her free time, Tamyah enjoys attending church, spending time in nature, engaging in the arts, and exploring cuisines.