Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Barbara Jordan of ‘Always BEV’ Decided To Change Our World

I teach self-defense techniques in my course as well as how to use your voice. One participant wrote me a letter about her experience in a parking lot. She was walking to her car and spotted a man walking sporadically in the parking lot. She kept her eye on him. He began to approach her, and she put her arms and hands up to defend herself. She screamed “No, No, Get Back, No,” and the individual changed course and went the other direction.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Barbara Jordan.

When former ESPN broadcaster Barbara Jordan’s older sister Beverly was murdered by her fiancé some 30 years ago, the family’s grief was compounded when the killer was released from prison nearly three decades later. Barbara, a former athlete, five-time All-American for the Amateur Softball Association and an alternative team member for the 1996 US Olympics for women’s softball, knows distinctly what…