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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.
She currently is working on several documentary projects as well as her next book which will further examine the vastly different experiences of women and men at high altitude. She also regularly speaks on a variety of motivational topics to national and international audiences. This past year she taught documentary filmmaking at Spy Hop Productions, Utah’s innovative youth media center which has as its mission “to cultivate the visions and voices of an emerging generation.”
Jordan spent the better part of the 1990s 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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In addition to her broadcast experience, Jordan wrote numerous cover stories for various Boston periodicals on topics ranging from famed mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears to movie star brothers Donnie and Mark Wahlberg.
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, filmmaker 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, as well as competing in triathlons and ultra-distance trail runs.