Lisa Irish

Communications Specialist,

Fulton Schools of Engineering

Other ASU affiliations

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Engineering Communications

lirish@asu.edu
Phone: 602-496-1936
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Paul C. Helmick Center (HLMK) 660 S. College Avenue Room 527T Tempe, AZ 85281
Mail code: 9309

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Lisa Irish is a communications specialist for the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.

Before joining ASU in 2024, Lisa served as a communications specialist for Arizona School Boards Association and an education reporter for AZEdNews.com.

She previously was a reporter covering crime, courts, fire, veterans, education, nonprofits and breaking news for The Daily Courier in Prescott, a web content manager for KTAR.com, a night web editor at azcentral.com and a web news producer at Wall Street Journal.com.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts in news-editorial journalism and biology from Texas Christian University and a Master of Arts in news-editorial journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Education

Masters of Arts in news-editorial journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia

Tutored seminar participants in computer-assisted reporting at the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting, added stories to Science Journalism Center's database, wrote for the newsletter and collected Q-statements from theses and dissertations as a research assistant.

Bachelor of Arts in news-editorial journalism and biology, Texas Christian University

Edited and wrote stories for the science page, reported on general news and wrote humor, science and opinion columns for The Daily Skiff. I wrote for and was managing editor of the campus magazine, Image.