Mary Jordan is the co-bureau chief of The Washington Posts’s Mexico City Bureau. She arrived there in June 2000, just day before the historic election of Vicente-Fox and has written on the country’s transition to democracy. From 1995 until 1999, she was the co-bureau chief of the Post’s Northeast Asia Bureau in Tokyo, covering Japan, the Korean Peninsula and much of Asia.

Jordan joined the Post in 1984 and has worked on the metropolitan and national staffs. Before her posting to Tokyo, Jordan was the Post’s national education reporter, traveling throughout the United States writing about education issues, schools, universities and young people. She also reported on many of the biggest breaking stories of the day including the Persian Gulf War and the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas.

Jordan graduated from Georgetown University in 1983, and spent her junior year studying Irish literature at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1984. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1989-1990. She spent the 1994-95 academic year studying at Georgetown University in preparation for her assignment in Tokyo. In preparation for her Latin American assignment, she spent the 1999-2000 academic year at Standford University.

Jordan is married to Kevin Sullivan, The Post’s other co-bureau chief in Mexico. They have two children.

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Kevin Sullivan has been co-bureau chief of The Washington Post’s Mexico City Bureau since 2000, covering Mexico, Cuba and Central America. He held the same position in the Post’s Tokyo bureau from 1995 to 1999, where he covered Japan, the Korean Peninsula and much of Asia.

Sullivan joined the Post in 1991 and worked on the paper’s metropolitan staff, covering politics and other issues in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

From 1986 until 1990, Sullivan worked at the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island, where he wrote stories from the Persian Gulf, Northern Ireland and Colombia. His story on the drug cartels in Medellin, Colombia, won an award from the Inter-American Press Association in 1990. Sullivan began his career covering the waterfront for The Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts.