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Jourdan McGinn

Meet Jourdan

Jourdan McGinn is the Founder & Principal of Anchor & Rise Consulting. Jourdan brings over 15 years in the social impact space, working to pioneer innovative solutions to advance equity, health access, address poverty, and support economic justice.

Jourdan served on the senior leadership teams and in executive leadership roles for large non-profit and social enterprise organizations across the globe, including Partner in Health, One Acre Fund, Global Health Corps, Impact Charitable, and more. She has managed teams as large as 1,400 staff, generated over $50 million in revenue to advance social justice and impact organizations, and managed portfolios serving hundreds of thousands of individuals. Jourdan has advised the World Bank, Global Fund, and country governments on advancing more equitable health policies, and supported city, county, and state governments in building resilient, equitable programs to advance economic justice. 


Jourdan has lived in a half dozen countries across North America, Europe, and Africa, and brings deep cross-cultural experience and expertise. She specializes in human-centered and participatory co-design methods that aim to shift power to those most proximate and impacted by the issues organizations are working to solve. She believes deeply in building a more just world, beginning in the places and alongside the people most disproportionally impacted by systemic injustices. Jourdan holds an MSc in Public Health & Economics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (distinction), and a bachelors degree in Strategic Communications (summa cum laude).

Previous Clients

Throughout her career, Jourdan has worked with clients including:

Gary Community Ventures
Seal with mountain and bear graphic and text 'City of Boulder' at the bottom.
Logo for One Acre Fund with text and a small leaf graphic
Logo of Partners in Health featuring four white hands reaching toward each other with an orange background.
Logo for Global Health Corps with teal text on a white background.
Logo of Pacific Gateway Center featuring a stylized arch and waves above the text 'Pacific Gateway Center' in blue.