Mi-Ai Parrish
ASU Media Enterprises
Managing Director + Professor of Practice
Mi-Ai Parrish is managing director of ASU Media Enterprise and is the Sue Clark-Johnson Professor for Media Innovation and Leadership at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Parrish served as president and publisher of The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com and market president at USA Today Network, where the team won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for “The Wall.” Previously, Parrish was the president and publisher at the Kansas City Star, and Idaho Statesman, and an array of newsroom roles at The Minnesota Star Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Chicago Sun-Times, among others. She is on the boards of the Associated Press, the Banner Health Foundation, The 19th* News, Arizona Community Foundation, Common Sense, and others. She’s been a Pulitzer Prize juror four times. She holds a BS in journalism from the University of Maryland.
