Disability inclusion · Storytelling · Resilience
Diana Elizabeth
Jordan
Actor · Speaker-storyteller · Artist educator
The artivist who uses performance to eradicate disability stigma, othering, and limiting beliefs.
Actor, speaker-storyteller, artist educator, and disability inclusion artivist, Diana uses the transformational power of performance and the expressive arts to change how audiences see disability, and themselves.
California
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Diversity and Disability Inclusion
Using performance and the expressive arts to eradicate disability stigmas, othering, and limiting beliefs.
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- Great for
- DEI events, conferences, universities, teams
- Focus
- Disability inclusion, resilience, adversity, team building
- Based in
- Los Angeles, California
- Delivers
- Performance keynotes, expressive arts workshops
- Booking
- Direct, or via Charli Jane Speakers
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What topics does Diana Elizabeth Jordan speak about?
Diversity and disability inclusion, disability history, the civil rights movement and culture, cultivating resiliency, coping with adversity, team building, and goal setting and visioning.
What kind of speaker is Diana Elizabeth Jordan?
She is an actor, speaker-storyteller, artist educator, and disability inclusion artivist. She delivers performance keynotes and expressive arts facilitated workshops, so a session is closer to theatre and participation than to a lecture.
Who is Diana Elizabeth Jordan best suited to speak for?
Conferences, universities and student events, and organizations focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, disability inclusion, resilience, and team building. Her audiences have ranged from high school students to fellow actors to chief executives.
What is Diana Elizabeth Jordan's approach?
She uses the transformational power of performance and the expressive arts to eradicate disability stigmas, othering, and limiting beliefs. Her work draws on disability history, the civil rights movement, and culture, so the room sees disability in context rather than in isolation.
Where is Diana Elizabeth Jordan based?
She is based in Los Angeles, California.
What outcomes can Diana Elizabeth Jordan's audience expect?
A shift in how the room sees disability, and encouragement to keep going. Audiences describe being captivated and inspired to reach their dreams, and students have said hearing what she has been through made them realize they can do anything as long as they try their best and never give up.
What are Diana Elizabeth Jordan's credentials?
She is a working actor with screen and stage credits listed on IMDb, an artist educator, and an expressive arts facilitator. Robert David Hall, actor and disability advocate and Chairman of the Tri-Union Performers With Disabilities, describes her as a sensitive and gifted actor and an intuitive and committed teacher.
Has Diana Elizabeth Jordan written a book?
No. Her work is performance based rather than published. Her screen and stage credits are on IMDb, and more about her keynotes and workshops is at dianaelizabethjordan.com.
How do I book Diana Elizabeth Jordan?
You can reach her by email at dejacts@gmail.com or through her website dianaelizabethjordan.com. Her profile is listed in the Charli Jane Speakers Directory.
What she speaks on
Focus areas she brings to the stage.
Diana shapes performance keynotes and expressive arts workshops around these themes. Titles and run of show are tailored with each host.
Diversity and Disability Inclusion
Diana uses the transformational power of performance and the expressive arts to eradicate disability stigmas, othering, and limiting beliefs. This focus area also draws on disability history, the civil rights movement, and culture, to help audiences see disability, and each other, differently.
Resiliency, and Coping With Adversity
Cultivating resiliency, and conquering and coping with adversity, told through story and performance. Audiences leave encouraged that they can reach their dreams and keep going, whatever they are facing.
Team Building, Goal Setting and Visioning
Team building, goal setting, and visioning, delivered through Diana's expressive arts facilitation. A participatory format that gets a group creating and imagining together.
Why Diana
She captivates a room, and moves it.
From students to chief executives to fellow actors, audiences describe Diana as unforgettable, encouraging, and original.
Diana Elizabeth Jordan is much more than a sensitive and gifted actor, much more than an intuitive and committed teacher. She's an original.
Her commitment to challenging discrimination and stereotypical images of persons with disabilities is matched by her dynamic persona in front of audiences and the camera.
Meet Diana
Actor, storyteller, artivist.
"I use the transformational power of performance and the expressive arts to eradicate disability stigmas, othering and limiting beliefs."
Diana Elizabeth Jordan is an actor, speaker-storyteller, artist educator, and disability inclusion artivist based in Los Angeles. She delivers innovative performance keynotes and expressive arts facilitated workshops.
Her work spans diversity and disability inclusion, celebrating disability history, the civil rights movement and culture, cultivating resiliency, conquering and coping with adversity, team building, and goal setting and visioning.
In her own words: things she can't live without are kindness, laughter, and gratitude. Describe herself in one word? Flawsome. On her bucket list: a show on or off Broadway. And the things she loves: her family, being an aunt, being a multi-passionate artist, living her dreams, and her friends.
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Email: dejacts@gmail.com
Website: dianaelizabethjordan.com