Gulf Coast 2050
Workshop and Symposium
2026

Broad Community Connections

Dasjon Jordan

Dasjon Jordan is a New Orleans-born community organizer, urban planner, and designer committed to building economic and community power in opportunity neighborhoods. He serves as Executive Director of Broad Community Connections (BCC), where he leads place-based initiatives focused on community organizing, community wealth building, and narrative change along the Broad Street corridor and surrounding neighborhoods.

Dasjon’s work sits at the intersection of urban planning, cultural strategy, and economic justice. He specializes in commercial corridor revitalization that supports small business ecosystems—from capital access and marketing to design and policy reform. His projects span the U.S., South Africa, and Mexico, always rooted in the belief that development must be led by those most impacted.

He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Tulane University School of Architecture’s Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, where he co-leads a graduate seminar on commercial corridor revitalization. There, he guides student projects integrating economic development with community-centered design, district analysis, and implementation planning.

Previously, Dasjon served as Strategy and Development Officer at Ujamaa Economic Development Corporation, where he managed the design and construction of Phase 1 of the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District Marketplace—a cultural and economic justice project at the center of a 19-block reclamation and redevelopment effort beneath the Claiborne Expressway in Tremé, the country’s oldest Black neighborhood. His work included stewardship of New Orleans’s first federal Economic Development Administration grant to support the project.

He was also a post-graduate fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Community Innovators Lab, where he focused on racial equity, civic pedagogy, and planning practice.

Dasjon holds a Master’s in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Louisiana State University.

He is passionate about history, imagination, and entrepreneurship as essential tools for community self-determination. His work is about more than buildings or programs—it’s about reviving civic engagement, developing grounded visionaries, and creating conditions for communities to build power on their own terms.

Dasjon also serves as Vice Chair of the New Orleans City Planning Commission and sits on the boards of People’s Housing+ and Rose Community Development Corporation—organizations where he is committed to expanding affordable housing and homeownership, advancing just urban planning, and supporting mission-driven real estate development.