Jordan Reimer is the Senior Manager for North America at the Strong Cities Network, a global network of 250+ cities dedicated to addressing hate, extremism, and polarization. In that capacity, he is responsible for managing Strong Cities’ prevention programming in the United States and Canada, assisting in the development of local prevention frameworks and the provision of capacity-building efforts. Prior to joining Strong Cities, Jordan was the Senior Manager for Threat Prevention at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where he managed projects related to targeted violence threats and built relationships with relevant stakeholders to share information on salient threats identified by ISD researchers. He has also served as a policy analyst at RAND, focusing on targeted violence prevention and counter disinformation; an intelligence analyst for the NYPD, specializing in counter-terrorism investigations related to the Syrian civil war and the foreign fighter threat; and a Middle East policymaker at the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense. He is a recipient of Princeton’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative fellowship and has a Master in Public Affairs (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
