Jane Eisner is an award-winning journalist, educator, nonprofit leader, and public speaker whose career spans leadership roles in major newsrooms, higher education, and Jewish communal life. She was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the Forward, where she transformed the publication’s digital reach and interviewed world leaders from Barack Obama to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and later directed academic affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A longtime writer and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Eisner has also held senior positions at the National Constitution Center, taught at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania, and consulted widely for media and nonprofit organizations. She is the author of Taking Back the Vote and contributes to leading outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Her forthcoming book, an interpretive biography of Carole King, will be published in September 2025 by Yale University Press as part of the Jewish Lives series.
