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= Kristin Richardson Jordan = Kristin Richardson Jordan is a writer, activist and educator currently running to represent Central Harlem in New York City Council District 9. She is founder of the publishing house, Pens Up Press, and is author of Mules Fight Back: 40 Activist Poems and Stories (2016) and Water & Light: Choose Love Now (2019). Born in 1987, Jordan would be the youngest Black woman and the first out Lesbian to hold this office. Jordan graduated from Brown University in 2009, where she double majored in Africana Studies and Literary Arts, and is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

As a City Council candidate, she is best known for her progressive, abolitionist H.A.R.L.E.M. platform which stands for:

Holding police accountable and abolition

Actually affordable housing

Redistributing wealth and resources to those most in need and most oppressed

Living longer: gun control and care for our seniors

Education for all and Environmental Justice

Meaningful Change

Due to her progressive stance on a number of issues, including policing, housing, health care, Jordan has been endorsed by a number of organizations, including Sunrise Movement NYC, Courage to Change PAC , Stonewall Democrats of New York , LGBTQ Victory Fund , LPAC , Women of Color for Progress , Progressive Women of New York , Riders4Rights , and NYCLASS.