Dr. Erin Carr-Jordan is the Executive Director of Social Impact at ASU and CEO of the Institute for Digital Inclusion Acceleration (IDIA), where she blends global vision with hyper-local action to close systemic and generational gaps in education, workforce, healthcare, and civic life. For more than 25 years, she has led cross-sector initiatives that integrate technology with human-centered design, ensuring innovation reaches, and benefits, those who need it most.
She has secured over $100M+ in funding and directed projects with NSF, USAID, NASA, the World Bank, the United Nations, the CDC, Battelle, Apple, and other leading philanthropic and industry partners. Her expertise spans nonprofit leadership, academia, technology, behavioral health, and public policy, giving her a unique vantage point on designing systems that succeed in both theory and practice.
Her work has been featured nationally on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Sanjay Gupta MD, and Anderson Cooper 360, and in publications including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Arizona Republic, in addition to extensive coverage across local television, radio, and digital platforms.
She holds an Organizational Leadership Certificate from MIT, a Certificate in Leadership: Creating Public Value from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Arizona State University, where she also serves as a Senior Sustainability Scholar.
Dr. Carr-Jordan serves on multiple government and nonprofit boards, is a Flinn Brown Fellow, COP21 delegate, and UN Women member, and was named the 2025 Flinn Brown Central Arizona Champion.