Zandra Jordan

Personal bio
Rev. Dr. Zandra L. Jordan is Director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. A trained rhetorician and ordained Baptist minister, her scholarship on womanism, racial justice and writing center administration; womanist ethics and theological writing; HBCU literacy partnerships and service activism; and African American English and writing assessment appears in WPA: Writing Program Administration, The Peer Review, Teaching Theology and Religion, Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning and Community Literacy, The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals as well as several edited collections, including Mya Poe's and Asao Inoue's award winning Race in Writing Assessment (2012). She holds a B.A. in English from Spelman College, a M.A.T in English from Brown University, a MDiv from Emory University, and a PhD in English and Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Rev. Dr. Jordan serves on the ministerial team at University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto, and is a proud member of the San Francisco-Peninsula Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is also a Chaplain Affiliate with Stanford's Office of Spiritual and Religious Life.

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