Jordan Starck

Jordan is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow and incoming assistant professor for Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, based in the Department of Psychology in the School of Humanities and Sciences. His research to date has focused on the reasons organizations embrace diversity, examining the psychological factors shaping people’s preferred approaches and the downstream consequences of different approaches. He also examines racial bias and its role in perpetuating racial disadvantage, particularly in the context of education and the justice system. Prior to his work at Stanford, he was founder of Charlotte-based Madison Multicultural Education Solutions, working to address educational inequities, and was a high school teacher. A psychology major and education minor at Davidson, Jordan was a Belk Scholar, Chidsey Leadership Fellow, Student Government Association Vice President, and Trustee Committee student representative. He studied in Ghana and was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Free Word Poetry Group. He was a Davidson Research Initiative Fellow and received the DBAN, HHMI Strategies, and Edward Palmer Psychology awards, and graduated with membership in Who’s Who. He completed his Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Social Policy at Princeton University in 2021.