Meet Jordan
The son of a coal miner and a school bus driver, Jordan learned early on that working hard and following the rules is no guarantee when the system is rigged for the wealthy few and the politicians they keep in their pockets. He grew up watching that system eat alive his parents, his friends, and his hometown.
Now, from the front of a public school classroom, he sees that this isn’t just his story. It’s the story of a majority of us being told to chase an 'American Dream' while a system built on greed decides our children’s futures before they’ve even graduated, guaranteeing a life of struggle to ensure the profit stays with the powerful and the few while the people doing the work are left behind.
Jordan doesn’t have a "political origin story." He has a life of showing up when the sun is still down and no one is watching.
Before he was a teacher, he was the high school kid on the midnight newspaper route. When his father lost his job, Jordan was the one on the gravel lot helping run the family car business. He was the student in Brazil learning from children with disabilities what it really means to never give up and he was the therapist who understood that finding your voice is the ultimate act of independence, especially for children with autism.
Throughout his life he has dedicated himself to giving kids the tools to speak for themselves in a world that often tries to speak for them.
That’s why today, you’ll find him in a 4th-grade classroom in South Dallas or on the court as an elementary basketball coach, where he sees our future in his students' and players eyes. He sees the brilliance that each of his them bring to this world, but he also sees the walls being built around them.
Jordan isn’t running to be a politician; he’s running because he’s a teacher who refuses to watch a rigged system steal his students' potential before they even pick up a pencil. He's seen the walls being built around them, and he's going to Austin to tear them down!
The fire Jordan carries was lit long ago in the hills of Madison, West Virginia. The son of a coal miner and a school bus driver, he saw firsthand that "working hard" is a empty promise when the wealthy few and the politicians they keep in their pockets are the ones holding the pen to our futures.
Life demanded a lot from Jordan early on. At fifteen, he became his grandmother’s primary caregiver, and hospital rooms became his second home. It was there, doing homework by her bedside or studying for college exams while painting her fingernails, that he learned the most important lesson of his life: true compassion is realizing that everyone is fighting a battle you can’t see.
Jordan isn’t a millionaire or a career politician. He’s a teacher who works two jobs, coaches elementary basketball and spends hundreds of dollars of his own money each year on his students. He does it all because he knows his students and his players deserve a fair shot at a future and if their teacher isn't willing to stand up and fight for them, then who will?
He’s ready to go from the Classroom to the Capitol to fight against those wealthy few and the politicians in their pockets, because this public school teacher has had enough of bullies!
