Jim Hendrickson is a freelance photojournalist specializing in native cultures in all parts of the globe. He has published travel articles on the Cook Islands, the Marquesa Islands, Tonga, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. He has published in BikeReport, Recumbent Cyclist News, TraveLtips, International Travel News, and in many newspapers.

Jim has presented hundreds of slide shows on his travels to more than 80 countries. His photographs have appeared in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers. He has received many local and state prizes and awards for achievement in photography.

Jim is also an avid long-distance tour cyclist. He has bicycled extensively in the United States, as well as in Europe, Africa, Australia, and on various islands in Oceania. He has spoken about his bicycle adventures in many schools, as well as on radio and television shows, and has been featured in many American and international newspapers. He self-published Cycling the North Star (JMH Productions), a book that describes his 3,200-mile bicycle trip from Montana to Alaska.

Jim is a former professor of Spanish and English as a Second Language. He holds a BA in French Literature, an MA in Spanish Literature, and a Ph.D in Foreign Language Education. He has taught at all educational levels: elementary school, high school, adult education, community college, college, and university. He has taught in California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Washington. He worked as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Bolivia and Chile, and a Language Consultant for the US Peace Corps in Belize. He has presented over one hundred workshops for foreign language teachers worldwide.

Jim has published over 50 foreign language books in various editions including The Spice of Life (Harcourt), Our Global Village (Harcourt), Poco a poco (Heinle & Heinle), Intercambios (Heinle & Heinle), Nuevas dimensiones (Heinle & Heinle), and Nuevas alturas (Heinle & Heinle). He is also the author of the best-selling Spanish Grammar Flipper (Christopher Lee). Jim has also published articles on psycholinguistics in Foreign Language Annals, TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, The Canadian Modern Language Review, and Hispania.

Jim has received many teaching and publishing awards including the Distinguished Faculty Award at Lansing Community College in Michigan, the Stephen A. Freeman Award for authoring the best article on teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal in 1980, and an award for writing the best article published in The Modern Language Journal in 1978.