Dominique Jordan Turner
Member
Dominique Jordan Turner was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and began serving on July 1, 2015.
Ms. Jordan Turner is currently the President and CEO of Chicago Scholars, an organization that trains and mentor academically ambitious students from under-resourced communities, giving them the tools they need to complete college and become the next generation of leaders in our city.
Ms. Jordan Turner is passionate about creating equal education opportunities for underserved youth. She believes that education is not a merit of socioeconomic status, but a valuable resource to pull marginalized youth out of poverty and into leadership positions that positively influence their communities.
Ms. Jordan Turner has spent the majority of her career creating high-quality educational opportunities for first-generation, and underserved student across Chicago. She began her career as a Management Consultant at Deloitte, where she focused on process reengineering and building customer relationships. Previously she was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Panama.
Ms. Jordan Turner has been selected for several prestigious leadership programs, including Leadership Greater Chicago, IMPACT through the Chicago Urban League and the University of Chicago, the Trinity Fellowship in Urban Leadership, New York University’s Lead the Way Fellowship, and the Broad Residency in Urban Education. She also initiated the Chicago College and Career Collaborative (C4) and Black Girls Lead, a supportive network for African American women leading nonprofits in Chicago.
Ms. Jordan Turner is fluent in Spanish and holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University and a M.B.A. from Marquette University.
