Yvette Jordan, Clean Drinking Water, Kristi Pullen Fedinick |
Expert Blog Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Co-authored with Yvette Jordan It is understood that water is life. It’s the purest form of nature’s essential presence in our lives. Water baptizes us. Water renews us. Water nourishes us. What happens when the purity of our water... 
Clean Drinking Water, Advocacy |
Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 On the occasion of the exhibition Pope.L: Choir, this program brings together four leaders in the field of water safety to talk about drinking water,... 
Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
Interview 9/12/2019 Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently... 
News Media, Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
By Matt Kadosh Published September 4, 2024 at 6:42 PM Last updated September 10, 2024 at 9:12 AM NEWARK — Authorities investigating gaps in the replacements of lead service lines across the city have found 32 of 701 properties investigated so far have “some... 
News Media, Education, Yvette Jordan |
TAP INTO NEWARKYOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ONLINE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 01, 2023 By MARK J. BONAMO PublishedOctober 31, 2023 at 7:03 PM Last UpdatedOctober 31, 2023 at 10:04 PM A panel discussion held at the downtown main branch of the Newark Public Library took a close... 
News Media, Education, Yvette Jordan |
By Yvette Jordan Guest Contributor January 11, 2024 NEWARK, NJ — Yvette Jordan is a history teacher in the Newark Public Schools, co-chair at LeadFree NJ Advocacy Committee, a member of Lead Free NJ Steering Committee, and Chair and cofounder of the Newark Education... 
News Media, Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
Eric Kiefer, PATCH Staff Posted Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:01 pm ET|Updated Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:39 pm ET NEWARK, NJ — As an educator, Yvette Jordan has seen firsthand why it’s important to protect the youth of America. Now, the chair of the Newark Education Workers... 
News Media, Education, Yvette Jordan |
November 29, 2022 Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88 By Jessica Jones-Gorman | jgorman@siadvance.com Yvonne Taylor stands on the steps of Rossville AME Zion Church where she was wed in... 
Advocacy, Clean Drinking Water, News Media |
www.the A1.org By Haili Blassengame ofhttps://the1a.org/segments/water-week-access-to-clean-drinking-water/ Human beings start their days with water. A warm shower. Brushing teeth. Washing faces. The more than two million Americans who live without running water,... 
Advocacy, Education, Yvette Jordan |
The Kids Are Not Alright In Newark, Students are Striking By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist Feb.15, 2023 By Yvette Jordan In the era of COVID (or post-COVID, as some have cautiously begun to call this time we’re in), we have all become more than familiar with the phrase... 
News Media, Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
Environmental justice advocate Yvette Jordan knows firsthand that there’s power in speaking up. In 2018, Yvette discovered that her drinking water in Newark, New Jersey—where she lives and teaches high school—was contaminated with sky-high levels of lead. In fact,... 
News Media, Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
If you sat in on one of Yvette Jordan’s high school history or social justice classes, you might hear her pleading with students. Not asking them to be quiet, but urging them to speak up. Even if it’s over something that seems simple. Often, their reply is, “Ms.... News Media, Clean Drinking Water, Yvette Jordan |
ABC NEWS November 7, 2021 By DAVID PORTER Associated Press An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey’s largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule NEWARK, N.J. — On a recent sun-drenched...
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