Jordan Brewington

Oral Historian

Jordan Berkeley Brewington (she/they) is an Oral Historian supporting Million Dollar Hoods and UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies in gathering and honoring the lived experiences of abolitionist organizers in Los Angeles. Jordan brings years of experience working at the intersection of law and the public memory of slavery. She has led oral histories and life-storytelling projects through her time working on state and federal public defense mitigation, moratorium litigation for environmental justice and reparations in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, and the public history of slavery and its legacies at Whitney Plantation and the Equal Justice Initiative. Jordan has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.