Jordan Merica (she/they) is a former university-level writing tutor who bounced around strange jobs for a few years post-college before deciding to branch out into freelance sensitivity reading, editing, and hosting writing workshops. It was there Jordan fell in love with the timelines and stories of her own peoples, who always seemed to be extracurricular options.

Jordan is an Afro-Indigenous farmer, using their lineage as a Black Cherokee Freedmen descendant to guide her land stewardship practices and community goals. Jordan’s particular skill-set is being able to recentering worldviews to encompass Black and Indigenous perspectives naturally, rather than as a last-minute thought. Through research, and storytelling more literature can be made for People of Color in contemporary light, rather than about us as old timey stereotypes.

Everyone has a story to tell, and that writing is a practice that all people should have access to and encouragement to pursue. Jordan encourages authors to think of Sensitivity Reading/Editing as a conversation between the Reader and Author on how to make their work stronger without relying on outdated ideologies. As a writer, they understand how intimate creation can be and wants to be supportive rather than critical about sensitive dialogues.