Jennifer Jordan

Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker and screenwriter, with many years of experience as a journalist, program producer, radio and television news anchor, voiceover/narrator and speaker. She has written and co-written several books including: Perfect Strangers with Roseann Sdoia, tells the poignant story of a woman who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. Southern Discomfort starring Tena Clark, is a story about a woman's coming of age in the Jim Crow South. The Babysitter starring Liza Rodman, which tells the story of a young girl who had a serial killer as one of her babysitters. In 2016, Jordan directed, wrote and produced 3000 Cups of Tea, Investigating the Rise and Ruin of Greg Mortenson, a documentary that follows the meteoric rise and devastating fall of philanthropist Greg Mortenson. The film tackles the charges against him and his Central Asia institute, which was intended to build schools and educate girls in Pakistan from Afghanistan, a mission that has been dogged by scandal. In 2010 Jordan wrote The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2. It tells the story of Dudley Wolfe, the first man to die on K2 during the dramatic 1939 expedition, whose remains Jordan found on the glacier below K2 base camp sixty-three years after his death. It won a National Outdoor Book Award in 2010 and was listed as a top-selling sportsbook in The Wall Street Journal. In 2005 she wrote Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the Firs…