After graduating from university, Jordy chose exploration over traditional job offers. He set out to see the world, working in roles that fed his sense of adventure. That decision led him to the cloud forests of Costa Rica, where he taught third grade at a conservation-focused ESL school, and throughout Central and South America.

After returning home, Jordy became marketing manager for a nonprofit that offers impactful travel programs for high school students of all abilities and backgrounds. For seven years he helped create and lead expeditions across the Americas, the Arctic, East Africa and Southeast Asia. He also co-founded a nonprofit that teaches sustainable development and appropriate technology in communities in Rwanda and Mexico.

Jordy joined Nat Hab in early 2014 and has since returned to Peru’s upper Amazon Basin, hiked and kayaked in the Galapagos Islands, visited Churchill’s polar bears, explored East African savannas, and traveled to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica. He has also witnessed Madagascar’s biodiversity, refined his photography on a Secluded Botswana Safari, observed coastal grizzlies in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and stood before the Greenland ice sheet on an East Greenland Arctic Adventure.

An almost-native Coloradan who currently lives in the Centennial State, Jordy was born in Winnipeg, holds dual Canadian/American citizenship and often visits family in Canada. When not traveling, he spends his favorite hours with his wife and their two children. He also enjoys discovering new music, snowboarding, camping, riding cruiser bikes and plotting strategies for Settlers of Catan.