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Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker and screenwriter, with over twenty-five years experience as a journalist, broadcast producer, radio and television news anchor, voice-over/narration talent and motivational speaker.
She created, wrote, and co-produced Women of K2 for the National Geographic Channel which won five major film festivals. She is the author of Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2, (William Morrow, 2005), which won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award for Best Mountain Literature and was selected as an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Book Review.
More recently she produced and co-wrote Kick Like A Girl which has won several major film festivals and was bought by HBO for broadcast in early 2009. Currently she is developing two documentaries, each examining the competitive spirit in those who don't allow obstacles, be they age-old sexism or physical disability, to define them. She also had the pleasure and honor of being a jurist for the 2008 Ogden Mountain Adventure Film Festival.
She is also a celebrated public speaker, routinely addressing audiences of all ages and backgrounds on the many issues raised in her book and films.
Jordan spent the better part of the 1990's at WGBH-FM in Boston where she anchored National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She also worked with the acclaimed WGBH Channel 2, public television's most prolific production house, as an on-air talent, segment producer and host, researcher and writer. Before Jordan joined WGBH she created, produced, hosted and marketed her own talk show which she syndicated nationally via NPR’s satellite network.
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Previously, she directed Harvard University's leading speakers' arena, The Forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Along with hosting presidents and prime ministers, she helped produce Candidates '88 a 13-week television series aired live on PBS stations nationwide. After leaving the Kennedy School, she consulted for Harvard's Radcliffe College, organizing women's conferences throughout the country.
Jeff Rhoads climbing in Utah, photo by Jennifer Jordan.
She co-owns and operates Skyline Ventures Productions with her husband, cinematographer and adventurer Jeff Rhoads, in Salt Lake City, where she spends as much of her free time as possible exploring the back country of the Wasatch Mountains.