About

Jordan Vesey is a filmmaker, 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 on multi-part documentaries for Discovery +, National Geographic, and Oxygen, as well as field produced extensively. She has covered true crime— like the murder and fraud cases related to the Murdaugh family— as well as cast and coordinated international bilingual shoots for both verite and branded content documentaries. She has worked with reporters, celebrities, and archivists of various nationalities and is always looking for her next story.

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 sanctuary cities, beltway politics, education issues, and 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, and has a minor obsession with karaoke. She lives in San Diego with her partner and pitbull.

Photo Credit Tim Geaney