Jordan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with honors, earning a B.A. in Psychology and minors in Spanish and African and African American Studies. In addition to coursework, Jordan began her clinical research career as a freshman. Throughout her undergraduate career, she served as a research assistant in the Stanford School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery and in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. She was awarded the Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship and the Cardinal Course Fellowship during her sophomore and junior years, respectively. Outside of the lab, Jordan served as a Spanish translator for a kindergarten readiness program in the Bay Area, as a research intern for a community advocacy program centered around prison reform in Northern California, and as an assistant instructor in dance therapy classes for patients with Parkinson’s disease at Stanford Hospital.
After graduation, Jordan continued as a research assistant in the Stanford School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences in the Bronte-Stewart Lab. The lab’s research centered around the use of responsive neurostimulation for Parkinson’s disease, using embedded deep brain stimulation devices. Across industry and academic collaboration, Jordan developed expertise in the methodology and regulatory aspects of clinical research as well as medical device development and optimization.
As a doctoral student in Health Psychology at UCLA, Jordan presently seeks to integrate her undergraduate coursework in Psychology and Black studies, with clinical and epidemiological health research. She has been awarded the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships as well as the American Psychological Association’s Early Graduate Student Researcher Award. She serves as a mentor for the Afrikan Student Union Academic Supports Program, the Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Program, and the Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology. Her current research utilizes an intersectionality framework to examine longitudinal predictors of health among Black women. She is passionate about mentorship, health equity, and accessible science communication across disciplines.
