Speaking
“It was a great pleasure and an exciting, galvanizing experience to have you with us at the Media Lab last week.
Your talk was both brilliant and passionate, your interactions with everyone you met were authentic and probing, and your impact on our community was immediately electric. You helped us outline an optimistic path for real change. I can’t thank you enough for all that you did for our community.”
— MIT Media Lab
“A great speaker with a style that is engaging. Her ability to use stories to convey causes, effects, and outcomes is excellent. If you have an opportunity to engage her as a speaker at an event, your time and effort will be well worth it.”
“Jessica Nordell brings a scholarly magic and moving humanity to discussions of race, gender, and inclusivity. Her talk brings dazzling clarity to issues and dynamics that have been obscured and historically unaddressed. Even with her incredible wealth of knowledge, research and unforgettable anecdotes, the talk was truly a conversation and was powerfully open and genuine in its concern for all people involved. Jessica Nordell is one of those rare speakers whose keynote and their Q&A are equally impressive, mindful yet urgent. A marker that this work lives in her body, consciousness, and spirit.””
“Her talk is exceptionally well researched, historically significant, and emotionally poignant. What’s most impressive was Ms. Nordell’s sincere engagement with our student community, both in the bespoke keynote she delivered and in the robust student-led Q&A. Our students found Ms. Nordell not only an accomplished writer and thinker, but also an approachable, funny, and relatable human being who just so happened to challenge our collective beliefs. At this Quaker school, Ms. Nordell will forever be considered a Friend; we can’t wait to bring her back.”
Book Jessica for a keynote, fireside chat, or book club discussion
Jessica speaks to organizations and communities excited about creating cultures that allow everyone to thrive. With depth and compassion, Jessica takes participants on a journey from understanding unexamined biases to rebuilding trust and fostering true inclusivity.
Jessica offers new ways of thinking about our cultural assumptions, and illuminates what we can do today, tomorrow, and next week to transform our relationships with each other, with ourselves, and with the world.
For more information, please contact hello@jessicanordell.com.
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