Carolyn Jourdan

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Carolyn Jourdan is a writer and filmmaker from the Southern Appalachian Highlands, specifically from the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee.

Her documentary film, Half Lives, was shown on public and cable television in the US and around the world. Video Librarian Magazine' said Half Lives was "Brainy and poetic." Booklist said the film was balanced, insightful, and thoughtful. Half Lives was "Recommended" by the Americal Library Association and called "Epoch making" by Tokyo Broadcasting.

The film was lauded by the National Science Teacher’s Association, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, American Nuclear Society, American Institute of Physics, and Smithsonian curators.

Former Counsel to two United States Senate Committees, Carolyn has degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Law from the University of Tennessee. She has taught science, law, and media at the Department of Justice, University of Tennessee, and Pellissippi State Technical Community College.

She is a frequent speaker on issues of science in the media, delivering addresses to organizations such as the Association of Women in Science, American Nuclear Society, and American Vacuum Society, as well as for various Literacy fundraising events.

Her first book, Heart in the Right Place, will be published by Algonquin Books in June of 2007.

Heart in the Right Place is a comic memoir about how Carolyn, during a family emergency, gave up a glamorous career as a high-tech nuclear environmental lawyer in Washington, DC in exchange for manning the reception desk for her father in his rural medical office. The gracelessness of Carolyn's transition from public service performed while cruising the oceans on nuclear submarines and riding in the Secretary of the Navy's private Lear Jet -- to public service performed on her hands and knees (while swabbing up barf and various other body fluids) leads to much comedy and pathos.

Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes, said the book was: “Heartwarming, funny and utterly appealing.”

Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter, and actress, said: “This is a wonderful book. Carolyn is a great writer.”

Carolyn also writes a blog for the Great Smoky Mountains Association, the official education nonprofit partner of the park, about bumbling around Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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