Suki Dardarian joined the Star Tribune in 2014 as senior managing editor & vice president. Prior to that, she was a senior manager at The Seattle Times and the Tacoma News Tribune. 

Dardarian, a graduate of the University of Washington, is a former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and serves on the advisory board of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at the Penn State College of Communications. 

During her tenure at The Seattle Times, the paper earned two Pulitzer Prizes, and Dardarian has twice served as a Pulitzer juror.