Howard interviews Dr. Linda Anderson clinical psychologist, life coach, therapist and co-author of a new book Silent Agreements: How to Free Your Relationships of Unspoken Expectations along with Drs. Sonia Banks and Michele Owens. Dr. Anderson is a highly sought after psychologist that guides clients towards enhancing their power, achieving their goals, and sustaining a happy healthy lifestyle. She graduated from Boston University with a double major in Spanish Language/Literature and Psychology, and earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. She has also served as staff psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center and has taught psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, Bard College at Simons Rock as well as the City University of New York.

JORDAN JOURNAL- HOW “SILENT AGREEMENTS” CAN HELP OR HURT RELATIONSHIPS?

A free-wheeling discussion with Enrique Fernández-Toledo who is the Director of the Puerto Rico Relief and Economic Policy Initiative of the nationally recognized think tank Center for American Progress. He is a Capitol Hill veteran who worked for Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) for 20 years as deputy chief of staff and senior policy adviser, where he was the congressman’s lead staffer on Puerto Rico policy issues and worked for several months in the House Financial Services Committee. Fernández-Toledo has also served as associate vice president for government relations at Kaplan, Inc. and in various media, organizing, and academic roles in Chicago. Fernández-Toledo is a native Puerto Rican with family currently residing in the island.

Jordan Journal- THE CHALLENGES OF UNITING THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO?

The state of women in Puerto Rico has reached a crisis. The poverty rate is 45%, gender violence in more prevalent in Puerto Rico that any other part of the worlds, and our sisters remain significantly underrepresented in that policymaking circles that govern their lives.  Howard interviews two women pioneers in the Puerto Rican community Elba Montalvo and Gladys Carrion. Elba Montalvo is former Executive Director of The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, retired after 33 years and founder of the Puerto Rico Women’s Foundation. Attorney Gladys Carrion, is former Commissioner of Administration for Children’s Services and also of the NYS Office of Children and Family Services. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Foundation.

We discuss the creation and launch of the “Fundación de Mujeres en Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Women’s Foundation, Inc.) which will channel resources to “women-centered direct service programs; women-run disaster relief activities; efforts to expand women’s leadership and meaningful representation at key decision-making tables; and advocacy promoting public and philanthropic policies and practices that serve and protect women’s interests." The launch is to be held on November 19th at 6 p.m. at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute located at 120 East 125th Street. 

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JORDAN JOURNAL- FOUNDATION PAVES WAY FOR ADDRESSING THE CRISIS STATUS OF WOMEN IN PUERTO RICO

In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned to the ground. While insidious government policies caused the devastation, Black and Puerto Rican residents bore the blame in what some commentators then called “spic” removal. On the Jordan Journal Howard interviews Bronx born Vivian Vazquez who exposes the truth about the borough’s untold history and reveals how her community chose to resist, remain, and rebuild.  Susanna Blankley, of the Right to Counsel Coalition stated regarding the film” Denying us access to our history and replacing it with a narrative that justifies things as they are is a real act of violence-a real weapon. Telling history like Decade of Fire does is a real way to take power back.”

THE REAL STORY OF WHO BURNED THE BRONX? REVEALED IN PATH BREAKING DOCUMENTARY “DECADE OF FIRE”

Given the controversy over the discriminatory denial of tenure to Prof. Lorgia Garcia Pena I thought I would share with you a Jordan Journal retrospective from 2012 the first interview with Prof. Carmen Gonzalez author of the seminal anthology “Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia” which is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America

Carmen Gonzalez -Author of  Presumed Incompetent: Race and Class for Women in Academia

The Jordan Journal  is a current events-driven program that is committed to a cross-fertilization of ideas between people of color and the progressive community in the United States.”

Biography:  Howard Jordán is an educator, attorney, journalist, and political activist. He is a tenured Professor and Chair of  the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx and teaches Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies.

He has a distinguished record of public service. From 1987 to 1991, he served as Executive Director of the New York State Assembly Task Force on Immigration, a 25-Assembly member commission addressing regional immigration issues. He also worked as: Legislative Assistant to former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's Committee on Hispanic Affairs; at Harlem Legal Services, Inc.; and the law firm of Franco & Anderson. He is a graduate of Yale University and New York Law School. During 1996-97, he was a Charles Revson Fellow at Columbia University, researching the “relationships between communities of color.”

Howard Jordan has also been a long-time contributor to the New York alternative media. He was the Editorial Page Editor of The Latino News, the first effort to establish a Latino interest English language newspaper in New York. For several years he appeared as a regular columnist for Hoy, a Spanish daily and as a bi-monthly guest contributor to New York Newsday. In 1994 he co-founded along with political scientist Angelo Falcon, Critica: A Journal on Puerto Rican Politics and Policy, and served as its first managing editor. For the last ten years he has been the host of The Jordan Journal on WBAI-99.5FM in New York City.

Jordan has an extensive history of activism. In the early eighties he was a founder of Latinos United for Political Action (LUPA), an organization dedicated to electing progressives to political office. Along with the late Richie Perez, he was also a founder of the Latino Coalition for Racial Justice, committed to combating police brutality in New York. In 1987, he chaired The Latino Rights Project, an organization dedicated to servicing victims of racial violence and police misconduct.

During his college years Jordan directed Despierta Boricua, the Puerto Rican student organization at Yale University and today continues this work as a member of the Latino Yale Alumni Association (LYAA). He is also active in the Afro-Latino movement in New York assisting in promoting and recognizing the African heritage of Latino communities. 

During the height of racial apartheid in South Africa, Jordan founded Latinos for A Free South Africa, bringing together Latinos of every stripe to combat this invidious segregation.  As Director of the NYS Assembly Immigration Task Force he also spearheaded the release of the first report on Dominican immigrants in the United States and organized the first Puerto Rican-Dominican Dialogue in New York, sponsored by the National Institute for Latino Policy and Alianza Dominicana (at that time the largest Dominican social service agency in the United States).

As he reflects back on his life and modest contributions, Jordan’s greatest source of pride is his ongoing efforts to build bridges between diverse communities. He often remarks, “Our enemy is disunity and divisiveness --- the key to any real change --- un cambio de verdad --- is the ability of our communities and their progressive leadership to transcend their particular arena of struggle and join in a broader movement for social justice.”

Howard Jordan-The Jordan Journal

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