BUCKiT® #17-J.J. Kelley: Explorer, Adventurer and Storyteller

It’s a highly dangerous undercover mission never attempted before – create a fake elephant tusk destined for the black market, decked out with a state of the art GPS tracking device. It will be used to go to the front line of the war on wildlife crimes and catch the violent King Pins of the illegal Ivory trade. Adventurer and Award Winning documentary filmmaker J.J. Kelley often ventures way off the beaten pass, deep into the heart of a country, putting his life at risk to cover stories focusing on wildlife crime and conservation. This small town boy, is also a bad ass explorer who conjures up some crazy journeys just because he can. J.J. has canoed 1,400 miles from Alaska to Seattle in a homemade kayak, navigated the full length of India’s River Ganges using only paddle and peddle power, hiked 2,300-miles along the Appalachian Trail, and biked 1,300 miles along the path of the Alaskan Pipeline. J.J. Kelley has an amazing ability to blend these two worlds into his life and career -- the hard hitting and sometimes hard to hear stories, with the adventures he often is making up as he goes along.