Kari Jordan
Executive Director at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
San Lorenzo, Central Department, United States
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Top SchoolKari L. Jordan, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of The Carpentries with nine years of leadership experience scaling data literacy and equitable open-source training worldwide. She combines rigorous academic research in engineering education—focused on belonging for people of color in STEM—with hands-on program building, growing partnerships across academia, government, and industry. Kari has steered organizational strategy, assessment, and community equity roles at The Carpentries and Data Carpentry, and contributes to their flagship Software Carpentry website as a technical writer. An adjunct professor and founder of consulting and nonprofit ventures, she blends scholarship, mentorship, and practical program design to lower barriers to computational skills. Notably, her work links evidence-based assessment with community-driven open-source learning models to make data science training both accessible and inclusive.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., M.S. at Michigan Technological UniversitySenior Design, Senior Design at Copenhagen University College of EngineeringPh.D., Ph.D. at The Ohio State University
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rt8
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django3
crystal-reports3
reporting-tools3
reporting-services3
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/website
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Software Carpentry website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:103 commits, 71 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kari primarily contributed to the website by updating and adding content related to the Software Carpentry course. Their work included updating personnel roles and contact information, suggesting and implementing relevant tags for blog posts, and adding content to the site. They also handled minor corrections and updates to the website's documentation.
liquidcarpentryjekyllsoftware-carpentry
carpentries/instructor-feedback
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
This repository was created to develop instructor feedback reports using Carpentries pre and post survey data.
Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
reportssurvey-datacarpentriesfeedbacksurvey
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