Eunice Trotter is a lifelong member of Scott United Methodist Church, which was founded in the home of her great grandparents, Keziah and Henry Martin.
She holds journalism and communications undergraduate degrees and an MBA.
She is former owner of The Indianapolis Recorder, which is one of the oldest African American newspapers in the country.
She was the first African American editor at The Indianapolis Star and held editing or reporting positions at several other newspapers, including The New York Post, Florida Today, Fort Wayne News Sentinel, the Palm Beach Post and the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
She has won numerous civic, community and reporting and writing awards and in 2017 was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.
Her book, “Black in Indiana,” about a little-known 1821 Indiana Supreme Court decision, has received first-place awards from the Indiana Press Women’s Club and the National Federation of Press Women.
Eunice is also an historian, genealogist, and director of Indiana Landmark’s Black Heritage Preservation Program, which preserves Black heritage sites and history statewide.