About Me
Image Description: Jordan, a young Black person in a navy blue turtleneck sweater, looks directly at the camera. Jordan is wearing a black necklace from Belize with two wood beads on each side of the black string. Jordan is smiling warmly and has their hair in two-strand twists pulled back.
Jordan (they/he) is an eleventh generation Afro-Indigenous descendant with lineage from the continent of Africa and the Lenape "Delaware" Turtle (Unami), indigenous to Turtle Island's North Eastern Woodlands (parts of present day New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut). Jordan is a healing justice practitioner who approaches his work with an intersectional lens, utilizing guidance and technologies inherited from elders, ancestors, and the natural world. Jordan came into healing work via food justice 10 years ago in Los Angeles and Whittier, CA and then in Washington, D.C. [Tongva, Gabrielino, Piscataway and Nacotchtank lands, respectively]. Jordan is a liberatory coach, philanthropic consultant, and ancestral steward.
Jordan is a former member of the Board of Instigator at the Diverse City Fund, a movement accountable public foundation which supports healing justice, organizing, advocacy efforts in D.C. through participatory grantmaking. Jordan is a Certified Liberatory Coach through the Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation School. Previously, Jordan was the Director of Power Building at a DC-based family foundation moving resources to transform unjust systems. Jordan’s highest priorities are answering their grandparents’ call to leave the world better than we found it, and to be a good relative to all our relations.