Jordan T. Garcia, 37, is Co Executive Director at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), where he sustains a project called Coloradans For Immigrant Rights (CFIR). He is honored to be a part of the nationwide trainers’ network for the Ruckus Society, where he trains front line communities across the country in Nonviolent Direct Action principles and practices. Jordan also worked with a community foundation, the Chinook Fund, as a grassroots grant making committee co chair and a board member for many years. Sitting on the board of directors for the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, publishers of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, gave Jordan an opportunity to promote the connection between fundraising, social justice and movement-building. He is currently on the board of directors for the Woodbine Ecology Center.
Jordan has used a collective liberation lens to do leadership development in our movements for justice for 16 years and learns more about how to do this better every day. He believes that community organizing for systemic change can and will lead us to liberation, Jordan is ecstatic to be able to use popular education and theater of the oppressed to do that work. Born in San Antonio, TX, he grew up in Kansas City, KS and moved to Colorado in 1998. Jordan graduated from Colorado College in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy with an emphasis on Urban Studies. A sensitive Cancer, he enjoys cooking with friends, being a birth doula, riding his bike, planning for the post revolution industrial collapse and hopes to one day become a better bee farmer.
What are you looking forward to as a fellow of TLC?
“The TLC Fellowship is an incredible opportunity for me to connect with local and national leaders who inform and inspire me. I’m honored to collaborate and learn from my cohort and this fellowship. I hope to build my leadership and increase my capacity to make change and fight for justice in my community.“