Nicquel Terry Ellis is an award-successful journalist who serves as a Senior News Desk Reporter for the Digital News group. She joined NCS in November 2020.
Ellis has spent a lot of her time on the community protecting problems with race, ethnicity, and equality.
Her protection has included the controversy surrounding variety, fairness, and inclusion packages in company America, greater schooling, and authorities. Ellis has additionally coated the efforts to take away Black History curriculum from school rooms, the combat to get extra consideration on instances of lacking individuals of shade, the autumn of Roe v. Wade and its influence on marginalized communities, and the well being disparities laid naked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to writing for NCS Digital, Ellis has made appearances on numerous exhibits together with NCS New Day, NCS Newsroom, NCS This Morning, and Early Start. She has additionally hosted podcast episodes for the NCS Political Briefing and Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction. Ellis is a 5-time winner of the NABJ Salute to Excellence awards together with an honor in 2022 for an interactive venture on the maternal well being disaster dealing with Black girls. Ellis has been awarded twice by the New Jersey Press Association.
Before becoming a member of the community, Ellis served as a nationwide correspondent for USA TODAY protecting race, inequality, and activism. She led a lot of the newspaper’s protection of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks, and the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted throughout America. Ellis additionally spent six years working in native information at The Detroit News and the Asbury Park Press.
Ellis holds a bachelor’s diploma in journalism from Michigan State University.