Simone Jordan founded and edited Australia's most successful hip-hop magazine, Urban Hitz, when she was 23. She later settled in New York, where she lived for a decade and worked as the first Australian host of the SiriusXM Radio show Hip-Hop Nation. She has also worked as a consultant for Higher Ground Consulting Agency, which focuses on emerging Australian artists and writers from culturally and linguistically diverse and First Nations backgrounds.
Source: Books + Publishing, Richell Prize.
