Jordan Hanssen is a writer and co-founder of OAR Northwest, a nonprofit adventure rowing and education organization in Seattle, Washington. Jordan has over ten thousand miles of adventure rowing experience, including as captain of two ocean rows: the 2006 Shepard Ocean Fours Rowing Race from New York to England, and the 2013 Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Africa to the Americas Expedition from Dakar to (almost) Miami, featured on Dateline NBC. He is the author of the book Rowing into the Son about his team's first place, Guinness Record row across the North Atlantic. In 2014 he was a part of OAR Northwest’s Adventure: Mississippi River, an annual trip down North America's most important river from source to sea, visiting classrooms and delivering curriculum along the Mississippi River.