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Jordan Kligerman is in his third year as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in the department of Television, Radio and Film within the Newhouse Sports Media Center as part of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. In his current role, Kligerman teaches Sports Documentary, Sports Content for Social Platforms and Multi-Media Storytelling. In addition to teaching and developing courses, Kligerman leads the award winning industry partnership of student filmmakers, 44 Films.
Prior to joining the faculty at Newhouse, Kligerman spent five years as part of the staff in the athletics department at Syracuse University. Starting in the department as a creative media specialist, Kligerman was promoted to assistant athletics director for creative services in 2017. In his role as creative director, Kligerman led all video and graphic design for social media, commercials,  development, in arena productions, special events and contributed to broadcasts for the ACC Network.
In the spring of 2018, Kligerman and Sports Media Center director Olivia Stomski developed the Sports Documentary course as part of the Sports Media Center in conjunction with the department of television, radio and film.

Kligerman began his teaching career at the State University of New York at Oswego where he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Broadcast and as an adjunct in the Film Studies major. Over a twenty plus year career in film, television and social content creation, Kligerman has produced events, commercials and other content principal owner and operator of fireKmedia. Kligerman managed his own firm for 10 years with a client base that included NFL Films, the National Basketball Players Association and Aspen Dental. Prior to running his own firm, Kligerman spent eight years with NFL Films as a production manager, coordinator and assistant. During that time, Kligerman helped produce content for ABC, FOX, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network.

Kligerman earned a M.F.A in Documentary Directing in 2006 from The City College of New York’s graduate program in media arts. In 1996, Kligerman earned a B.A. from the University of Delaware, where he also was a three year letterwinner in lacrosse.