Jordie Davies

Graduate Research Assistant

During her time of employment with GenForward, Jordie Davies was a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago, studying American political behavior. She was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the GenForward Survey of Millennials.

Jordie’s research interests have included Black politics, social movements, political participation, and political communication. Specifically, she has focused on the influence of social movements and new media on political attitudes and participation. For GenForward, Davies did work on the Movement for Black Lives and on the politics of racial redress (with Jenn Jackson and David Knight), considering millennial understandings of structural racism and potential forms of justice.

Davies received a BA in Political Science from Emory University, in Atlanta, GA, with a minor in Educational Studies.