Jordan Melnick is editor and co-founder of Beached Miami, which covers a nascent phenomenon called Miami culture. He is also the co-founder of Sketchy Miami, a community art project with a simple and impossible goal: to create a portrait of every person in Miami.

Jordan earned his MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. As a freelance journalist, he has written extensively about the restaurant industry and covered various other topics, including architecture, education, and health care. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, and elsewhere. In 2010, he attended the Peter Jennings Project annual gathering of journalists and constitutional scholars in Philadelphia as a student fellow.

Jordan is currently in a serious relationship with Beached Miami. If you really want to know where he's at these days as a journalist, new-media explorer, and human being -- or if you just want to delve into Miami culture (such a thing does exist) -- head over to the site.

You can also follow Jordan on Twitter (@beachedmiami) or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beachedmiami.