Jordan “Joho” Daniels
Jordan Daniels (He/Him) is a Queer Black and Jewish creative who has supported and served San Diego county’s LGBTQ+ community since moving to the region in 2012. When he first arrived, he attended weekly youth groups at the North County LGBTQ Resource Center and volunteered within the community. At MiraCosta College, Jordan helped lead the GSA as it built the “Queer Corner” in the Student Union, raised money for its endowed scholarship program, and helped produce the school’s first-ever drag show. In 2015, with support of an LGBTQ+ Activism Scholarship from PFLAG San Diego, Jordan transferred to CSU Long Beach to pursue his degree in Journalism.
In Long Beach, Jordan’s lens of social justice and equity evolved through his storytelling, community service, and social media activism. He strengthened his politic of liberation through Fat, Black, and Queer intersectional lenses, gaining a deeper understanding of himself and how he envisions his place in the work that he does today. Upon graduation, Jordan dived into Communications work back in North County after the passing of his father, and began working within San Diego’s Jewish community professionally, and volunteering for San Diego’s Black Queer and Trans community with the San Diego Black LGBTQ+ Coalition.
Today, Jordan lives in Hillcrest, serving Jews of Color and LGBTQ+ Jews around the country, and continues supporting San Diego’s Black Queer and Trans community through the new San Diego Black Pride (formerly the Coalition). He remains dedicated to serving the community through in-person programs as well as through social media education and conversations at @johodaniels. He also is the co-host of the iHeartMedia & Outspoken Network BFF: Black Fat Femme Podcast, which facilitates incredible dialogue with some of the country’s most vibrant Black Queer and Trans changemakers, media figures, and community members.