Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who writes about national issues for the Washington Post. She spent 14 years abroad as a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Mexico City and London and writing from 40 countries. She and her husband and colleague, Kevin Sullivan, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their investigation of the Mexican justice system. Jordan was also a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of stories about problems facing women around the world.  

Jordan and Sullivan wrote “The Prison Angel,” a biography of an extraordinary woman who helps the destitute in Mexican prisons, which won a 2006 Christopher Award for work that “affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” They also wrote “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland,” which was a No. 1 New York Times best-seller and "Trumps Trials", the backstory of the impeachment trials.  

Jordan is a 1983 graduate of Georgetown where she majored in government. She has a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and won a Nieman Fellowship to study at Harvard. She has taught as an adjunct in the English department at Georgetown and while preparing for a four-year stint in Japan, she spent a post-grad year studying Japanese and Asian affairs at Georgetown University. Before moving to Mexico, she studied Spanish and Latin American affairs at Stanford University.