Journalist: Radio Dispatches for WGBH/BBC The World
Cambridge, MA
Age: 42

A news junkie, long-distance runner and outdoor adventure writer, Jordan, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be filing stories for radio and working on a book about women on K2. She is the local anchor of National Public Radio's The World and All Things Considered on WGBH/89.7fm. After high school in Egypt, she graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a double major in journalism and Middle East history. She also has a forestry management degree from Vermont's Sterling College. She then went to work as a news and public affairs director for Boston's WBOS-FM but left radio for a stint running Harvard's ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government that aired 1988 national campaign stories. She produced and hosted National Agenda, a syndicated program, and since 1991 has focused on radio news with frequent segments on outdoor adventure.

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From her early Outward Bound training, she continues to seek and find physical challenges in ultra endurance events: 30- and 50-mile trail races, 10-mile marathon swimming races, as well as "vacations" mountain biking the Continental Divide and pacing runners in the Vermont and Leadville 100 Trail Races. In August 1999, Jordan completed the Ironman Triathlon in Lake Placid: 2.4m swim, 112m bike, 26.2m marathon. Now that she has set her sights on K2.