Swainsboro High School is excited to announce Deidra Jordan, 2011 SHS alumna graduate, will be the featured guest speaker at the school’s annual Black History Month Program set for this Friday, February 25. The theme for this year’s program is HBCU’s and Their Contributions. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and will be hosted in the school’s new gymnasium.
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Deidra Jordan is a 2011 honor graduate of Swainsboro High School. She participated in several activities and sports during her time there, including Beta Club, FBLA, marching band, basketball and track and field. Before graduating from high school, Jordan accepted a full Track and Field scholarship to attend the Great Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), a historically black college/university (HBCU) located in Daytona Beach Florida.
As a student-athlete, Jordan majored in biology and pledged the Gamma Tau chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Jordan excelled in academics and athletics by winning several individual conference championships in track and field and graduated Cum Laude from B-CU. During the final year of her undergraduate studies, she discovered her love for scientific research. Jordan then received several fellowships to fund her graduate school education at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.
Her research focuses on refining the utility of human and microbial DNA for forensic cases. This past summer, she completed an internship with the Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. In 2019, Jordan graduated with a master’s degree in forensic science and will graduate this upcoming May with a Ph.D. in biology from FIU.
Deidra is the daughter of Darlene and Leroy Jordan, Jr., who are both retired educators from the Emanuel County School System.
