Lancaster Online hires DeOrnellas as environment and ag reporter

Elizabeth DeOrnellas has joined Lancaster Online in Pennsylvania as an environment and agriculture reporter.

Recently, DeOrnellas worked with Billy Penn and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting on a year-long project to explore education disparities in Philadelphia.

She worked as a journalist adviser and part of the English faculty at The Hill School in Pennsylvania. She also worked as a curriculum writer at Teach for America.

DeOrnellas has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked at the student paper. She is pursuing a master’s degree from Temple University, where she will graduate in July.

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