Michelle Eigenheer

Michelle Eigenheer

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Michelle Eigenheer is a freelance journalist and communications specialist working in Louisville, Kentucky.


She lived in many places abroad before attending high school in rural Kentucky. She went to college at the University of Louisville, majoring in communications and graduating in 2015. During school, she worked for her school’s newspaper as a news editor, most notably leading reporting on infrastructure problems at the university. She also worked as a researcher and copywriter at a niche marketing firm focused on infographics. She then interned at Louisville.com, the online platform of Louisville Magazine.


Eigenheer wants to focus on writing about topics like urban development, as well as topics in urban agriculture and infrastructure. She is looking to write more for magazines and gain more experience in multimedia as she pursues her master’s in journalism at New York University.