Empowering Change
Drawing from over a decade of experience as the Executive Director of Mass Alliance and over 20 years of organizing experience, Jordan excels at building coalitions, strategic planning, and training activists.
Jordan Berg Powers (he/him) is a consultant out of Worcester, Massachusetts. He was recently the former Executive Director of Mass Alliance, where he was for 13 years. As a broad coalition of 29 political and advocacy organizations with different sizes, organizational structures, and focus issues, Jordan knitted together these disparate groups to build a powerful, cohesive table dedicated to making Massachusetts more just. As the coalition’s Director for more than a decade, Jordan tripled the budget and size of Mass Alliance. Jordan has trained hundreds of activists and organizers across the state on understanding government, advocating for progressive issues, grassroots campaigning, messaging, and political power. He also helped elect new leaders across the state, recruited candidates to run and trained hundreds of their staff. In 2015, Jordan was recognized for his exceptional work in politics as an inaugural inductee into the 40 under 40 Poly Award. Using his expertise in talking to ordinary voters about progressive policy, Jordan successfully won campaigns for saving public education, environmental justice, and a more progressive tax system for the Commonwealth.
Currently, Jordan is consulting national organizations on Executive Director support, organizing, politics, messaging, and best practices for integrating DEI into organizational work.
Jordan serves as a Zoning Board Commissioner for the City of Worcester. He is also on the board of JOIN for Justice, Disability Policy Consortium, Partners in Democracy, Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (JALSA), Committee for Social Action for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) – Boston Area, Teen Just-Us, and the Jewish Liberation Fund; he is also on the advisory committee for the RAC Massachusetts. In 2018, Jordan was lucky enough to be a part of the JewV’Nation Fellowship, a leadership development program for visionary Jewish leaders across North America.
Jordan has a Masters in International Politics from the London School of Oriental & African Studies, as well as a B.A. in International Development and a B.A. in Economics from American University.
Driven by a commitment to justice, Jordan Berg Powers advocates for progressive causes through strategic campaigning, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.
Jordan Berg Powers has a proven track record of success in political campaigns promoting public education, environmental justice, and progressive taxation.