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Amy Eisman — adjunct journalism professor, veteran journalist, editor and innovative educator. Before retiring from full-time teaching at American University last year, she sent students to cover Congress, the US Supreme Court and taught them about ethics, writing and digital media. She ran programs in media entrepreneurship, interactive journalism and writing, and served as Journalism Division Director. Over the years, she taught digital writing around the world, including in Prague, Russia and at news organizations in D.C., such as WTOP, or focused on ethics for PBS and WAMU. Eisman also helped lead a project on the intersection of games and journalism. In 2015, she was named among the 100 Tech Titans in digital Washington by Washingtonian Magazine. Eisman was a long-time editor with Gannett, first at USA TODAY’s launch and later as Executive Editor of its weekend magazine. Eisman was also a managing editor at AOL, a Fulbright lecturer in Moscow, and co-founded the Online News Association’s MJ Bear Fellowship committee. Before that she was a reporter or editor in Baltimore and Dallas. Upon retirement, she was floored to learn of the creation of a scholarship in her honor at American University — the Amy Eisman Innovation in Journalism scholarship.