Mi-Ai Parrish

Mi-Ai Parrish is a journalist and publisher of The Arizona Republic, a daily newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.
Previously, from June 2011 to October 2015, she was president and publisher of The Kansas City Star and kansascity.com, and was the first woman to hold that post at the paper. Five years prior to that, she was president and publisher of The Idaho Statesman. She is a 1992 graduate of the University of Maryland, Merrill College of Journalism, and was named the 2013 Journalism Alumna of the Year. Parrish has also served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize.

Parrish has been the focus of politically motivated threats of physical violence based on The Arizona Republic, a Republican-supporting newspaper, endorsing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic president nominee. The newspaper staff have been threatened with physical violence.