Jordan Bentley Ricks is a photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts where she earned her MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May 2010. Originally from northern California, she graduated from The Colorado College in 2005 with a BA in English: Creative Writing and a minor in journalism. She also earned a Post-baccalaureate degree from the The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 2008. Recently her work has been included in the 2010 Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition where she received an honorable mention award, and her work has been included in Emerson's The Next Generation 3 exhibition and the Photographic Resource Center's annual student exhibition.