Name:	Cathy Jordan
Title:	Director
Department:	Children, Youth and Family Consortium
Organization:	University of Minnesota
Phone:	(612) 625-7591
Fax:	(612) 625-7815
Email:	jorda003 [a] umn.edu
Address:	270A McNamara Alumni Center 200 Oak St SE Minneapolis, MN

Brief Biography:

I am currently the director of a multidisciplinary, community-engaged center at an urban, land-grant, public, research university that brokers and coordinates community-university and multidisciplinary partnerships and translates and disseminates research based information to inform the work of practitioners and policymakers concerned with children, youth and family issues. I have also worked extensively in the area of faculty development around building competencies in community-engaged scholarship and in developing faculty capacity to make a persuasive case for promotion or tenure as a community-engaged scholar. I have coordinated a process for developing a rigorous mechanism for the peer review and online publication of nontraditional products of community-engaged scholarship. I have directed several community-based participatory research projects and have successfully created, sustained and evaluated mutually beneficial and respectful partnerships.

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