Congressional Forum September 2015

Featured Presentation:
Mi-Ai Parrish - President & Publisher, The Kansas City Star

Mi-Ai Parrish has been the president and publisher of The Kansas City Star Media Company since June 2011. She came to The Star from its sister newspaper, The Idaho Statesman, where she was president and publisher of Idaho's largest newspaper for five years.

Prior to becoming a publisher, Parrish spent the majority of her career in newsroom roles ranging from reporting and copy editing, to travel editor and projects editor. She has three Pulitzer Prize finalists in her tenure. Parrish served at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun-Times and The Virginian-Pilot.

The Star’s first female publisher, she currently serves on the boards of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City Area Development Council and The Civic Council. She also is a founding member of the Heartland Project Advisory Council and the Union Station Centennial Committee. She’s done a variety of speaking engagements, ranging from presentations at Sprint’s Global Diversity initiative, the Central Exchange, American Society of News Editors, Asian American Journalists Association and the Centurion’s Women’s Forum to Ink’s Middle of the Map Tech Forum on Women Innovators.

The Kansas City Star is the region’s largest source of news and information, with the largest daily newspaper, No. 1 news website, largest alternative free weekly tab, largest lifestyle magazines, largest weddings magazine and wedding shows, its premiere arts/culture/innovation/music/film and tech festivals, award-winning suburban newspapers, the region’s largest commercial print operation and more.

Parrish is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Juror, longtime member of the Asian American Journalists Association, and was named one of the 100 Most Important Minority Journalists of the last Century. She was named to the University of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame in 2013. She is married to Pulitzer-Prize winner Dave Parrish.

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