Difference Maker Brian Jordan

Meet our latest Difference Maker: Brian Jordan.

When it came to sports, there wasn’t much Brian Jordan couldn’t do. On the baseball diamond, he was an All-Star, patrolling the outfield for the Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers, and Rangers. And on the gridiron, he was a take-no-prisoners safety for the Atlanta Falcons.

But the one arena where Jordan faced a truly uneven playing field was the classroom—where reading was a struggle, thanks to undiagnosed learning differences that went unnoticed for years.

Now, as a dad who’s gotten his son the help he never had, Jordan is going to bat for students with dyslexia, using his platform as a children’s book author and literacy advocate to rewrite the narrative. Because Jordan knows you didn’t have to play in the NFL to understand that the best outcomes for learning differences start with tackling the problem early.