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"At different moments during the school year, each of the fellows offered the words of encouragement or insightful criticism that I needed to keep going, to feel that I was doing the work that needed to be done."
Bruce Morrow (2007 - 2008)
Associate Director
Teachers and Writers Collaborative
Professor of Public Administration, Hostos College, CUNY
Host, The Jordan Journal, WBAI
Howard Jordán is an attorney, professor, and columnist. He is presently an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Hostos Community College and writes regularly for Newsday and HOY, one the city's main Spanish dailies. Mr. Jordán has a distinguished record of public service. From 1987 to 1991 Jordán served as Executive Director of the New York State Assembly Task Force on New Americans, a 25-assemblymember commission addressing regional immigration issues. Jordan also served as Legislative Director of the New York Governor Mario Cuomo's Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs, Harlem Legal Services, Inc. and the law firm of Franco & Anderson. He is a graduate of Yale University and New York Law School.
In 1994 Jordan co-founded along with political scientist Angelo Falcon Crítica: A Puerto Rican Journal on Politics and Policy published by the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy and served as its first managing editor. Jordán is also a founder and former President of The Puerto Rican Yale Alumni Association and also served as Editorial Page Editor of The Latino News, the first Latino English language weekly newspaper in New York.
Mr. Jordan was also Charles Revson Fellow at Columbia University in 1997 researching the "relationships between communities of color." One of his greatest sources of pride is his efforts to build bridges between different immigrant, racial/ethnic communities. In the early eighties during the height of racial apartheid in South Africa, Jordan founded Latinos for A Free South Africa bringing together Latinos of every stripe to combat this invidious segregation. During his tenure as Assembly Task Force Director on Immigration he spearheaded the release of the first report on Dominican immigrants in the United States. He also organized the first Puerto Rican-Dominican Dialogue in New York sponsored by the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy and Alianza Dominicana (the largest Dominican social service agency in the United States).
Howard Jordán has also written for The Amsterdam News, The Nation, NACLA and EXTRA, a publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Mr. Jordán has a distinguished record of activism around immigrant rights, spearheading non-citizen voting, repeal of employer sanctions, stop English Only laws, and the passage of nondiscrimination executive orders to protect immigrants.
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