Draft:Jordan Gass-Pooré

Jordan Gass-Pooré is an American investigative journalist and podcast producer. She is best known for producing the Sounds Like Hate podcast for the Southern Poverty Law Center and founding the Hazard NJ podcast.

Career
Jordan Gass-Pooré has produced work for Mother Jones, the Southern Poverty Law Center and CNN, including CNN's award-wining Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta. She produced and hosted Sounds Like Hate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's podcast. She executive produced the second season of Queens Memory Project Podcast which won the Third Coast International Audio Festival Impact Award. She ran a show about Texas independent films on KTSW 89.9.

In 2022, Gass-Pooré created, produced and hosts Hazard NJ with NJ Spotlight News. Hazard NJ is an investigative podcast covering the ways that climate change and extreme weather impact Superfund sites in New Jersey and the first podcast to be produced by NJ Spotlight News. She is a Pulitzer grantee.

Gass-Pooré has contributed to numerous publications and was an Investigative Reporters & Editors 2021 Freelance Fellow. She also is a co-founder of Local Switchboard, through which she speaks and runs training on the topic of podcasting. She was the editor on the Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association) winning podcast Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist at WHYY. She was the producer on the episode of podcast What Does It Profit that won the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts' w3 Gold Award for Individual Episodes & Specials.

Personal life
Gass-Pooré was raised in Texas and attended Texas State University. She later studied journalism at City, University London where she founded one of its student media outlets Carrot Radio. She is currently based in New York City.