Allison Jordan

Feb 12, 2024 | americanprogress.org | Allison Jordan |Chandler Hall |Devin Hughes

Issues [1] On April 13, 2023, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was sent to pick up his younger twin brothers from a friend’s home when an address mix-up nearly cost him his life. After confusing Northeast 115th Street for Northeast 115th Terrace, located one block away, Ralph mistakenly rang the doorbell of an armed 84-year-old man. The homeowner instantly opened fire on the teen through a glass door, shooting him once in the forehead and again in the arm. Ralph was forced to flee for his life as an...

Feb 4, 2024 | medium.com | Allison Jordan

Leaders are readers, and not just readers of leadership or management books. I learn A LOT from fiction. Empathy. Different perspectives. How leaders can show up in different ways. Just like in life, the leaders in books aren’t always leaders by title. For example, Violet Sorrengail, a first-year cadet at the Basgiath War College in Rebecca Yarro’s book Fourth Wing*. Violet’s life plan was to be a Scribe, but General Sorrengail had other plans for her youngest daughter. Sorrengail’s are riders.

Aug 10, 2023 | americanprogress.org | Nick Wilson |Chandler Hall |Allison Jordan

Issues [1] Introduction and summary Less than two weeks after the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, in May 2022, the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history claimed the lives of 21 people in Uvalde, Texas, including 19 children.1 Following decades of inaction, these horrific events spurred action in Congress. Responding to calls from victims’ families and gun violence prevention activists, President Joe Biden and Democratic senators, including Connecticut Sen....