Ernabel Demillo, M.S.

Ernabel Demillo is an Emmy-award-winning New York City broadcaster and journalism educator.

She is a tenured Journalism professor at Saint Peter’s University and currently serves as the Department of Communication and Media Culture’s faculty chair. She started the journalism program in 2008. As chair, she also created the Public Relations minor in 2022.

She is the co- recipient of a $240K multi-year grant from the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium in partnership with the media start-up Slice of Culture, founded by two of her former students, to help fill the void of local news reporting in Hudson County, New Jersey.

In 2017, she was the inaugural recipient of the Frank LoMonte Ethics in Journalism Award, which is given to someone who performs “in an outstanding ethical manner demonstrating the ideals of CMA’s Code of Ethical Behavior.”

Ernabel also hosts and reports for CUNY-TV’s Emmy-award winning “Asian American Life,” (AAL) a magazine show focusing on the fast-growing and dynamic Asian American community.

Her stories have focused on hard-hitting AAPI issues from the growing political influence of AAPIs to anti-Asian violence. AAL’s special on Anti-Asian Hate was honored with a 2021 Telly Award. Ernabel’s stories have also focused on diversity in theater, Hollywood, business and children’s/YA literature. She has interviewed and profiled innovators, leaders, and rising stars in business, technology, entertainment, and the arts. She is the recipient of four Telly Awards and multiple Emmy nominations, including an Emmy for her short documentary filmed in the Philippines.

Previously, she worked as a reporter and anchor on the Emmy-award winning FOX morning news show, “Good Day New York.” Before coming to New York, she was a reporter for the Orange County Newschannel in California and the CBS-affiliate in Sacramento.

She has been honored for her work, including a citation by the Governor of New York for her service and contributions to the Asian American Community and a Folio Award for Best Environmental Reporting. She also made Buzzfeed’s list of 34 Epic Filipinos in the United States for her work as a journalist and educator and was featured in the recent book: Filipinos in New York. Ernabel was also featured in The Limited’s New Look of Leadership Campaign.

Ernabel is also quite active in the Asian American community. Along with emceeing numerous events, she has served on the boards of several organizations including Vice President of Broadcast for AAJA, board member for Apex for Youth, an AAPI mentoring organization and board member for the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) for almost two decades. CACF is the largest pan-Asian advocacy group in the country. She currently serves on the board for ARK Solves/Advancement for Rural Kids (ARK), a non-profit helping to empower communities in developing countries.

Her next chapter is putting the finishing touches on a historical novel inspired by her mother’s childhood in Japanese-occupied Philippines. She is the recipient of the George R.R. Martin Novel Writing Fellowship at Northwestern University where she workshopped her finished novel, beating out more than 400 other journalists.

Raised in San Francisco, Ernabel has lived all over the country, from Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York. She now lives on the Jersey Shore with her husband, daughter, and rescue dog Luna.