Elizabeth Hernandez covers social justice and equity issues for The Denver Post, plus a little bit of this and a little bit of that. She joined the newspaper as an intern in 2014 and just kept coming to work until they hired her in 2015. The first-generation college student and CU Boulder graduate has experience covering higher education, civil rights issues and topics for younger readers and underrepresented communities. In 2020, she won the Colorado Press Associationâs Rising Star Award, but her biggest accomplishment is when a source thanks her for listening.
![When Olivia Mackenzie received the call that her mom â 62-year-old Lynn Murray â was inside a grocery store with an active shooter, she raced down from Nederland, driving with a brace on her broken leg amid blowing snow. âI was just praying that I didnât crash, break my leg even more and that my […]](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/lynn-murray-01-16x9-1-1.jpg?w=140 "When Olivia Mackenzie received the call that her mom â 62-year-old Lynn Murray â was inside a grocery store with an active shooter, she raced down from Nederland, driving with a brace on her broken leg amid blowing snow. âI was just praying that I didnât crash, break my leg even more and that my […]")
