Jane Eisner

Former Director of Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University

Jane Eisner recently completed an appointment as Director of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. For more than a decade, she was The Forward's editor-in-chief, the first woman to hold the position at America's foremost editorial and news organization. Prior to her work at The Forward, Eisner held executive editorial and news positions at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 25 years. She has taught at Wesleyan University and at the University of Pennsylvania.