Jordana Barton-Garcia

Jordana is Director of the Texas Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Broadband Coalition — a cross-sector network of local partners working to create the sustainable digital ecosystem South Texas needs for an inclusive and vibrant economic future. Her work is dedicated to supporting low-income and rural communities to fully participate in the digital economy in a way that promotes economic development, health equity, workforce development, educational equity, access to financial services, and entrepreneurship.
Jordana previously served as Vice President of Community Investments at Methodist Healthcare Ministries, where she introduced a new area of grantmaking for digital inclusion and health equity. In its first two years, MHM contributed approximately $25 million to organizations in South Texas to close the digital divide. Prior to MHM, Jordana served as Senior Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where she supported the Federal Reserve System’s economic growth objectives and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). As a community development officer, her work included economic research, community development finance and philanthropy, as well as training financial institutions and federal banking regulators. She worked to incorporate digital inclusion into the CRA and created a handbook for low-and moderate-income communities, banks, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Closing the Digital Divide: A Framework for Meeting CRA Obligations. She worked directly with several South Texas communities to invest in broadband infrastructure and digital opportunity programs that have become models for the country. Her career at the Federal Reserve was preceded by distinguished service in community development banking and finance at Capital One Bank, and as a nonprofit leader in the expansion of microfinance in the US with LIFT Fund (formerly Accion Texas).
Jordana serves on the Statewide Working Group of the Texas Broadband Development Office.