Jordan, LMSW (she/her) is based in Houston, Texas, and leads projects focused on community safety, youth mental health, and PI’s Texas Policy work. Jordan partners with local coalitions, statewide organizations, and student leaders to take collective action to build safe and supportive school environments, advance health equity, and address Texas’s eviction crisis by shifting policies and practices toward more equitable outcomes in a challenging political landscape. Jordan works on local and national community safety projects such as SHINE and SYNC to build equitable conditions for safety and healing, promote healthy relationships, and prevent violence. In addition, Jordan currently leads a Landscape Scan for the Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area to identify the strengths, challenges, and needs shaping youth mental wellbeing in the Houston region. 

Before joining PI, Jordan was a Senior Program Manager at the Center for Civic & Public Policy Improvement, where her policy work focused on advocating for legal representation for tenants facing evictions, increasing access to healthcare coverage for Black and brown Houstonians, and efforts to enhance civic engagement and fight voter suppression in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods. Jordan’s work began in the movement to end gender-based violence, where she supported survivors and developed strategies to prevent violence. She did this through her roles as an advocate at a domestic/sexual violence shelter, a violence prevention educator, and as the Associate Director of Rice University’s SAFE Office.

Jordan is a licensed social worker in Texas and received a Master of Social Work (Macro/Political) from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work in 2021 and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Jordan enjoys dancing, reading, and exploring nature with her family.