Elise Jordan

Elise Jordan is an American journalist and commentator.

Biography
Born Catherine Elise Jordan to Kelly and Susan Jordan in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Elise Jordan, also sometimes known as Elise Hastings, graduated from Marshall Academy in 2000 and with a degree in history from Yale University in 2004.

Career
Jordan served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09. She worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting, at the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad and for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as speechwriter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Jordan has been a commentator at CTV, BBC, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network, and a regular guest on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.

Jordan's articles about politics have been featured in Marie Claire, The New York Post, The Atlantic.com, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and the National Review Online. In 2007 she worked with press and communications strategy for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan with the National Security Council. Elise Hastings is part of the advisory board to the Girls 20 Summit, a summit for young women from G20 nations and the African Union and UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee. 1

Personal life
Jordan married journalist Michael Hastings on May 21, 2011 in Hernando, Mississippi.

Michael Hastings died in a single-vehicle car crash on June 18, 2013.