J.J. Kelley is a twice Emmy-nominated director. Kelley is a Correspondent on the National Geographic Channel’s flagship documentary series, EXPLORER. He's also the host of the Travel Channel series, "Off the Map," which investigate some of history's greatest adventures gone wrong. Two of his documentaries have also been cover stories for National Geographic Magazine.
An avid adventurer, Kelley paddled 1,400-miles from Alaska to Seattle in a homemade kayak (in the feature documentary Paddle to Seattle), traveled the full length of India’s River Ganges (the subject of his documentary Go Ganges!), is a 2,300-mile Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker, and biked 1,300 miles along the path of the Alaska Pipeline. Kelley brings a unique mix of humor and grit to subjects he investigates which often take him to the remotest parts of the planet. He regularly appears as a guest on National Geographic Weekend and recently starred in a television commercial for Nature Valley.