I am a PhD student in the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. My work explores teaching and learning related to sustainability in higher education, specifically how to facilitate students to take action as change agents.
Through my research, I aim to create futures where innovations in how students’ competencies are generated, assessed, and applied can enable personal and societal transformation. My background is in nonformal education and pre-service teacher training.
Recent blog posts featuring Jordan

Sustainability in Teacher Education Research
A newly published entry in the Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, part of a broader project…
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Pluralism beyond relativism in ESD
What is the role of education in facilitating sustainable futures? This seemingly straightforward question belies…
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Interventions Curriculum Aims to Support Instructors and Staff in Creating a More Sustainable Campus
As interest in, and the imperative for, teaching about sustainability in higher education grows, instructors…
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Sun Devils devise creative solutions for sustainability on campus
Originally published on Aug 30, 2020 on ASU Student Life by Carmen De Alba Cardenas…
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Developing and assessing key competencies for sustainability
PhD project by Jordan King More soon …
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Intervention Curriculum | About the project
We design a cross-unit academic program in which students are trained in interdisciplinary behavior change research and experiment with evidence-based interventions to shift student food consumption behavior on campus.
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