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Jordan Vesey

(she/her)

Producer

Los Angeles, California US

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About

Jordan Vesey is a director, producer, and journalist whose mission is to use documentary as a tool to celebrate and empower images of underrepresented people on screen. She has served as a story producer and archival researcher on many multi-part documentary series for clients like National Geographic, Discovery +, Oxygen, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018 she was a Collaborative Studio Fellow for the Union Docs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn where she directed a short documentary on a group of interfaith volunteer chaplains for the MTA. She is the recipient of the Fall 2018 RIAS Berlin Commission's German reporting fellowship, as well as the winner of the 2020 Environmental Media Awards for Best Documentary Series “Activate: Ending Plastic Pollution”. She began her career in broadcast news working for the PBS NewsHour, and as a journalist has covered immigration stories, beltway politics, education issues, and profiled a number of famous artists and musicians. She created the PBS Newshour's Student Reporting Labs “Level Up” series, for which she won a National Educational Telecommunications Association award for best instructional media. She attended Macalester College, is fascinated by the historical figure Otto Von Bismarck, and loves a good espresso. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her partner and pitbull.