Jordan Thierry Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

The California Black Freedom Fund is a five-year, $100 million initiative to ensure that Black power-building and movement-based organizations have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism. Key Contributions: 1. Manage the State of Black California event series in partnership with the California.

At Dream Chase Media, we specialize in helping nonprofits, foundations, and social businesses improve communications, programs, and fundraising strategies for growth and impact. We've served many incredible social justice organizations including One Voice (MS), La Plazita Institute (NM), Freedom Project (WA), OPAL (OR), ReInventing Social Enterprise (OR).

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival, and an official selection at Portland Film Festival, Bronzelens, Denton Black Film Festival, and Austin Lift-Off Film Festival, GRANDMA’S ROSES is a raw, intimate documentary exploring the labor & love women invest in their families and communities.

The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color is a national network of hundreds of community and advocacy organizations who come together to advance race and gender justice by transforming policies that are failing boys and men of color and their families, and building communities full of opportunity.Also, with the Alliance, I've helped launch and co-led Healing.

The Delta Proud Youth Initiative is a partnership between private foundations, higher education, public school districts, and local stakeholders to improve school climate using strategies to increase high school graduation rates for African American males. The initiative began with a focused on three counties of the Mississippi Delta: Bolivar, Leflore, and.

A powerful tool for educators and parents to talk about racism in ways that go beyond interpersonal interaction, and recognized in over a dozen of top kids books list for teaching anti-racism. Systemic racism is incredibly difficult to understand for grownups! This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws.

My consulting assignments with Frontline Solutions have helped philanthropic groups assess their impact, identify growth opportunities, and launch grantmaking initiatives. Key Contributions: 1. Helped Feeding America design and launch the Food Security Equity Impact Fund to grant over 20 million dollars to BIPOC-led food justice organizations (2021-2023)..

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

The Beaverton Black Parent Union is a volunteer-led collective of families with Black children organized to create community, advocate for culturally relevant resources, and ultimately support the success and well-being of our children and families in Beaverton. We engage in community building and grassroots organizing to unify Black families across.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Open Signal Labs is an incubator for Black filmmakers based in Portland. The career-altering Labs fellowship program supports emerging filmmakers with a year of training, access to top-of-the-line media equipment, mentorship, and much, much more.Key Experiences: 1. Participated in writing, producing, and cinematography workshops. 2. Built relationships.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

The Virtual Beaverton Night Market was an interactive, live-broadcasted-and-streamed television program that aired over two nights in August of 2020. The program was developed in response to the national quarantine as an alternative to the annual Beaverton Night Market experience. The program highlighted a diverse set of local entrepreneurs, sharing their.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

The New Mexico Asian Family Center provides culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself.Key Contributions: 1. Facilitated strategic communications planning retreat. 2. Co-developed the mission, vision, and values statement with the client. 3. Designed a root cause analysis and theory of.

Greater Los Angeles Area

PolicyLink is a national research and action institute dedicated to advancing racial and economic equity. Through my work at PolicyLink, I aimed to eliminate race and gender injustice by advocating for legislation and building partnerships across issue areas. Key Contributions: 1. Served as the education policy lead in California, working with legislators.

As a leader at Frontline Solutions, I managed internal communications and provided consulting services in media production, organizational development, philanthropy, youth engagement, and fatherhood.Key Contributions: 1. Produced UnderConstructionProject.com - a storytelling series for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2. Helped launch and staff the.

In The Black Fatherhood Project, filmmaker Jordan Thierry leads viewers through an honest and essential exploration of fatherhood in Black America, providing historical context and conversation for an issue at the core of the Black experience today. Key Accomplishments from Community Engagement Campaign: 1. Developed and led a national community engagement.

At the Funders' Committee, I served as a Program Associate, managing programming showcasing impactful civic engagement programs to philanthropists. Key Contributions: 1. Developed and managed FCCP programs, including webinars, briefings, training, and conferences.2. Led bi-annual conference planning, including agendas and task delegation to the planning.

Teacher, Grade 4 at William H. Horton Elementary School.

Washington, DC

Black Youth Vote! is a broad-based coalition of organizations and individuals committed to increasing political and civic involvement among black men and women aged 18-35. It is youth-led and dedicated to educating young voters in the Black community who are increasingly disenfranchised and alienated from the electoral and legislative process. Key.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Key Skills Gained: 1. Researching news stories 2. Writing news stories 3. Producing local stories4. Assisting reporters in the field 5. Pitching6. Video editing

Portland, Oregon, United States

KBOO "is a Volunteer-Powered, Non-Commercial, Listener-Sponsored, Full-Strength Community Radio for Portland, Oregon, Cascadia & the World." At KBOO, I had the opportunity to work with veteran newsman Robert Jefferson, as well as experienced citizen journalists from Oregon. Key Contributions: 1. Reporting on the evening public affairs newscast 2. Producing.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Worked under the guidance of world leaders in urban fashion design and marketing.

M.A., Mass Communication And Media Studies

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: President, National Association of Black Journalists at UO; Assistant Director, Multicultural Center; Vice.