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The Short Story:

Jordan Keesler is a student at Agnes Scott College (’19) where they major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and minor in Environmental Science and Sustainability Studies with a specialization in Global Learning. Originally from Trenton, Georgia, Jordan considers Chattanooga, Tennessee home where their passion for social justice first began. This passion transcends into their work where they are interested in how coalition politics and a nuanced version of ecofeminism can aid the current environmental justice movement in its longevity, inclusion, and effectiveness. Additionally, Jordan holds vested interests in how sports culture shapes transgender individuals’ images of their bodies. 

Outside of academic work, Jordan spends a majority of their time running cross country or playing softball for Agnes Scott. Additionally, they serve as Co-President of Followers of Earth, Nature, and Noble Action on campus and volunteer as the Assitant to the Director of Operations for Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Georgia. They also find time to work as the Environmental Justice and Public Health Grassroots Organizing Intern at Georgia WAND and as a Diversity Coordinator in the Gay Johnson Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion were they manage to bring their passion of gardening, art, and zine creation to the forefront of their work. 

This site serves as a means to explore and catalog feminist and queer ontology and epistemology that they have learned. Through their reflections, writings, and media content they hope to translate these theories into praxis as a means of documenting their own radical personal transformation and conceptualizations of the world around them.

The Longer Story: 

Jordan graduated from Dade County High School as valedictorian in 2016. Prior to college, they participated in Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (2014) where they now have worked for the last five years. Their high school career was defined by service where they were awarded the Presidential Service Award Silver for National and Community Service under President Obama in 2016.

Coming to Agnes Scott College in Fall 2016, Jordan began their college athletic career as a cross country and softball player. During their tenure at Agnes, they have been awarded Academic All-Conference all three years and were granted the Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association All-American Scholar-Athlete Award in 2018.

Outside of athletics, Jordan pursued curating a community to foster additional aspects of their identity. In Spring of 2017, they worked closely with another student to found Followers of Earth, Nature, and Noble Action (FENNA) to celebrate holidays in community and educate the wider campus community about Paganism. They were interviewed for a HerCampus article about their experiences as a Non-Binary Pagan following the creation of FENNA. Additionally, following the violent death of a peer at Georgia Tech, Jordan set out to carve space for transgender and gender non-binary folk at Agnes Scott. As a result, Jordan organized Transcend to provide resources, information, and community for their fellow siblings on campus.

Beyond campus organizing, Jordan has worked for numerous environmental non-profits. Influencing a majority of their first-year work, environmental justice grassroot organizing pushed them to consider the power and pitfalls of ecofeminism. As they progressed through their time at Agnes Scott however, they realized that the environment could be conceptualized in many facets and consequently contaminated in many facets as well. In cumulation of these experiences, coupled with several transphobic incidents within athletics, Jordan became passionate about how transgender athletes have come to understand their bodies in relation to sports. They hope to explore this topic moving forward in their academic pursuits.