21 Facts About Sandra Eisert

Sandra Eisert was born on January 1,1952 and is an American photojournalist, now an art director and picture editor.

Sandra Eisert contributed to 1989 earthquake coverage that won a Pulitzer Prize for the San Jose Mercury News.

In 1969, Eisert attended Indiana University Bloomington, a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana.

At that time, Sandra Eisert's transition was part of the first efforts towards gender parity in photojournalism that began in the 1960s and 1970s.

From 1975 to 2000, Sandra Eisert would go on to serve eighteen different years on the Missouri Photo Workshop faculty.

Sandra Eisert was hired by the San Jose Mercury News as design director and was promoted to senior graphics editor before becoming art director for its Sunday magazine.

In 1986, Sandra Eisert worked with a seventeen-member team of photography editors to edit Day in the Life of America, a photo project by American photographer Rick Smolan.

In 1988, Sandra Eisert designed the cover photo for the Monsters of Rock Tour 1988.

That same year, Sandra Eisert received the Atrium Award for Graphic Design while working at the San Jose Mercury News.

At the San Jose Mercury News Sandra Eisert helped cover the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

In 1990, Sandra Eisert was one of three judges who selected entries in a national exhibition of Women in Photojournalism that was taken on a national tour by the National Press Photographers Association, a professional society of still and video photojournalists.

Sandra Eisert took second place in the 1992 Pictures of the Year's Magazine Feature Story Picture Editing category for her contribution to a story in West Magazine.

At the time, Sandra Eisert worked as West Magazine's Art Director and was the first woman to win the award since it was first given out in 1954.

That same month, Sandra Eisert designed the cover for the June 27,1993 issue of West Magazine, which subsequently received an award from the Sunday Magazine Editors Association as being one of the ten best Sunday magazine covers in the United States.

In early February 1994, Sandra Eisert left her position at the San Jose Mercury News to become the director of photography at the San Francisco Examiner newspaper.

Sandra Eisert has a reputation nationwide as a visual artist of tremendous vision and ability.

Sandra Eisert was part of a team of twelve Mercury News photo editors that received the 1993 Pictures of the Year competition's Overall Excellence in Editing award.

In March 1994, Sandra Eisert received the Bronze award for photojournalism from the Society for News Design in the 15th annual Best of Newspaper Design competition based on her work on West Magazine.

That same year, Sandra Eisert photo-edited Material World: A Global Family Portrait, a photo essay by American freelance photojournalist Peter Menzel.

Two years later, Sandra Eisert photo-edited Women in the Material World, a 1996 companion volume to Material World that focuses on women from 20 different countries, along with short essays.

In 1998, Sandra Eisert worked as senior graphics editor for Microsoft, where she designed the first MSNBC.