Ernabel demillo biography

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 t

American television journalist

Ernabel Castro Demillo is an American television journalist. She is the host and producer of CUNY TV's monthly magazine show, "Asian American Life", which debuted on June 10, 2013. The premiere show was nominated for a NY News Emmy for Best Community Affairs/Public Programming in 2014. The show has been nominated for multiple Emmys since its debut and honored with four Telly Awards. Her short documentary featured on Asian American Life in 2019, “Fighting Hunger, Feeding Minds: A New Yorker’s Mission to Keep Kids in School in Rural Philippines” won a 2021 Emmy. Demillo was also notably nominated for a New York Emmy for Best Historical/Cultural Segment for Asian American Life in 2017 for her feature "The Ties that Bind: Filipinos in New York". In 2017, she was the inaugural recipient of the Frank LoMonte Ethics in Journalism Award, which is given someone who performs "in an outstanding ethical manner demonstrating the ideals of CMA’s Code of Ethical Behavior." Demillo was honored for fighting against her employer Saint Peter's University when they attempted to censor the Pauw Wow the student-run newspaper she advised.

She, along with Slice of Culture, a local news site, are the recipients of a multi-year grant (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) totaling more than $250K from the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium (NJCIC) whose mission is to fill the news gaps in underserved local communities in New Jersey.

Early life

Demillo was born Ernabel Castro Demillo in 1965, and her parents are father Harriman E. Demillo and mother Flordeliza (both of the Philippines). She has a younger brother Emil Castro Demillo. and sister, Emiliza.

Education

She received her M