Jordan Brewington

Oral Historian

Jordan Berkeley Brewington, JD (she/they) is an Oral Historian for Million Dollar Hoods at UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, where she stewards oral history projects, and co-curates and activates a digital archive honoring the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated community advocates and abolitionist organizers across the state of California. Jordan engages in local public memory projects and deep study around Black memory work with KyKy Archives, Black Memory Collective, and Archiving the Black Web. Jordan has a B.A. from Columbia University, where she was a student leader in the Columbia and Slavery Research and Justice Initiative, an institutional reckoning with the university’s complicity in slavery, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she published Dismantling the Master’s House: Reparations on the American Plantation (Yale L.J., 2021), advocating for legal approaches to land-based, local reparations for descendants living in Louisiana’s River Parishes.