Jordan Vesey is a filmmaker, producer, and journalist whose mission is to use documentary as a tool to celebrate and empower images of underrepresented people on screen. She is currently a Collaborative Studio Fellow for the Union Docs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn, where she is directing and editing two short documentaries which will prem... Read More

Jordan Vesey is a filmmaker, producer, and journalist whose mission is to use documentary as a tool to celebrate and empower images of underrepresented people on screen. She is currently a Collaborative Studio Fellow for the Union Docs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn, where she is directing and editing two short documentaries which will premiere this June. By day she produces at Radical Media on a docuseries for the National Geographic Channel about global poverty. Prior to that she worked for the PBS NewsHour for five years producing a wide range of stories for both web and television broadcast. Some of her favorite topics to cover include the intersection of politics, race and identity, youth culture, gender and music.She is the recipient of the Fall 2018 RIAS Berlin Commission's German reporting fellowship, as well as the winner of the Stone Soup Films Doc in a Day Film Festival. 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 is a person grounded in curiosity, and integrity who loves cinematic character portraits and investigative long form work. She attended Macalester College, grew up in New York City, and has a minor obsession with the historical figure Otto Von Bismarck. Read Less