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MARY JORDAN Mary Catherine Jordan (born November 10, 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for the Washington Post. She is currently the editor of Washington Post Live, which organizes political debates, conferences and news events for the media company. She has written on U.S. politics, the American education system and many other subjects. With her husband, Post journalist Kevin Sullivan, Jordan ran the newspaper’s bureaus in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. Jordan has written from nearly 40 countries and also been a frequent commentator on BBC Television. Jordan, a daughter of Irish immigrants, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1983 and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1984. In 1989-90, Jordan was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University. Jordan began her Post career as an intern for the Style section, crisscrossed the country writing about colleges and schools as the national education reporter, and covered Virginia and national politics. For a year at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, she studied William Butler Yeats and other Irish poets. She was given her first job in the newspaper business by legendary Irish author and editor Tim Pat Coogan, who hired her to write a column in the Irish Press. She enrolled in Japanese language classes at Georgetown University before moving to Tokyo for four years and studied Spanish on a post-graduate fellowship at Stanford University before moving to Mexico for five years. Currently, Jordan moderates many high-profile forums for the Washington Post including the “The 40th Anniversary of Watergate” in June 2012 that featured key Watergate figures including including former White House counsel John Dean, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. She hosted the 2010 Maryland gubernatorial debate between Governor Martin O’Malley and former Governor Robert Ehrlich, and moderated a rare sitdown with Redskin owner Dan Snyder, Capital’s owner Ted Leonsis, and other owners of Washington’s sports teams. Among the many newsmakers she has interviewed: Legendary singer and songwriter Paul McCartney, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins. Jordan has written extensively about injustices and discrimination against women around the world including articles about the exceedingly low conviction rate of rape in Britain and the unfortunate girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male. Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their Post series on the “horrific conditions in Mexico’s criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people,” as the Pulitzer Board described. Along with four Post photographers, Jordan and Sullivan were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series of stories on the difficulties women face around the world. The Pulitzer jury called the series a “sensitive examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations.” Jordan and Sullivan authored The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia’s Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (The Penguin Press, 2005). In 2006, the book won the Christopher Award, which “salutes media that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.” Jordan and Sullivan have also won numerous other awards including the George Polk Award for their coverage of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and awards from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists. JON KAMEN @radical.media creates some of the world’s most innovative content across all platforms of media. Originally renowned for its commercial and advertising success, it has transformed and grown to develop, produce, and distribute television, feature films, music programming, live events, digital content and design. As the founding Chairman and CEO of @radical.media, Jon continues to expand @radical’s capabilities within this ever-evolving media landscape. Beyond an Executive, Jon is a Producer and Executive Producer of groundbreaking projects. Amongst @radical’s major achievements, @radical.media has been recognized for producing multiple award-winning projects including the Academy Award and Independent Spirit Award for the documentary The Fog of War; and a Grammy for the Concert for George. This past year, @radical produced the Academy Award and Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Paradise Lost 3 and the Emmy-nominated A&E documentary following Paul Simon’s Graceland journey, Under African Skies. @radical is currently in production on a Ron Howard- directed documentary on the Made In America festival in Philadelphia. And it recently launched THNKR, a Premium YouTube Channel, offering viewers extraordinary access to the people, stories, and ideas that are transforming the world. Beyond his professional duties and prolific production credits, Jon is on the Board of Trustees of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has recently has been appointed to the Board of the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. Jon has continuously fostered @ radical’s work with numerous organizations and public service initiatives, including RED, ONE, and Conservation International. In 2012, he accepted Mayor Bloomberg’s Made in New York Award at Gracie Mansion. Jon strives to increase the reach, impact, and legacies of the advertising and entertainment industries. During his two terms as National Chairman of the AICP, he founded the “Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial,” which has been presented for the past 20 years at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1994, Jon received the Crystal Apple Award for his outstanding contributions to the city’s production industry. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017546