Dasjon Jordan: Building Community Wealth & Power in New Orleans | City & Regional Planning Lecture
The Broad Street neighborhoods of New Orleans are a microcosm of the city's richness in history, culture, and self-determination. Through disasters, discrimination, and uncertainty, these communities have produced innovation in civic leadership and economic growth and solidarity that influences the region and the country. In this City & Regional Planning lecture, Dasjon Jordan, executive director of Broad Community Connections, speaks to how the place-based economic development organization works to build community power and wealth and equitably shape the Broad Street neighborhoods.
About the speaker
Dasjon Jordan is the executive director of Broad Community Connections, a community economic development organization dedicated to catalyzing revitalization along New Orleans’s Broad Street, centering the values of residents in decision-making, and building community power and wealth. As an urban planner, he has worked with public and private agencies in the U.S., South Africa, and Mexico focusing on cultural-economic planning strategies. Jordan was previously the strategy and development officer for Ujamaa Economic Development Corporation and a MIT CoLab fellow. He holds a master’s in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and bachelor’s in architecture from Louisiana State University.
Free and open to the public
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