Jordan sits on the dock of the California creek he lives on, looking out over the water contemplatively.

đź‘‹ Hi! I’m Jordan.

From an early age, I’ve loved to express myself through doodles, poetry, dance, and most other forms of art presented to me. A favorite childhood pastime was taking…

Creating Benuse

I independently designed and developed Benuse, a widget-based Hacker News reader for iOS.

Creating Dartmouth Directory

I independently designed and developed Dartmouth Directory, an iOS-first experience for managing contacts on campus.

Designing Florish

With Danni Lu, I designed Florish, a mobile messaging platform for cultivating relationships with loved ones.

Equipment for conducting the Voight Kampff test in a dimly lit room. A lone eye unsettlingly stares forward from a monitor.

Complementary Cyborgs

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction This was written as a final unit reflection essay. The stories we have studied for the cyborgs unit of our class are…

Amazon warrior woman from the future wields a whip, while other female members of her society run in the background.

War, Work, and Love in The Left Hand of Darkness and “When it Changed”

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction The term “utopia” was born from Thomas More’s fictional world of Utopia in 1516. More’s Utopia is fundamentally a political experiment in…

Woman in red sci-fi outfit bravely defends a man (out of frame) with her laser pistol.

Alien Amazons: A Reflection on the Representation of Women in SF

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction Science fiction is a hard genre to pin down with respect to social issues. In the beginning, genre SF assumed a sort…

An oil painting of Jordan, Mari, and Clark, backlit in dark clothing. They look intimidating.

Painting 1: Final Proposal

SART 25: Painting 1 Going into the end of the term, I want to continue the figurative work I began in my eighth-page studies. I was more engaged…

A yin-yang symbol, where the smaller dots have been extended into gendered pictograms. The stark contrast between light and dark suggest a binary view of gender.

A Struggle Towards Androgyny in The Left Hand of Darkness

WGSS 07.01: Gender in Science Fiction Is the The Left Hand of Darkness feminist? If Ursula K. Le Guin is a feminist author, why does she imagine a…

An extremely round Avogadro Project sphere suspended in a big machine.

Permissivism: Possibilities, Presuppositions, and Pragmatism

WRIT 5.04: What is Knowledge? Uniqueness vs. Permissivism Sometimes it is helpful to think about our cognition like a machine. Perhaps we are engineers making a machine that…

A confusing map of a (somewhat) flat earth model. The model is well-drawn, creating doubt as to whether it could actually work.

Conspiracy Theories and Fallibilism

WRIT 5.04: What is Knowledge? Our day-to-day life is largely dependent on our knowledge. I know that the air is safe to breathe when I go outside. I…