Ernabel is an Emmy-award winning New York City broadcaster and journalism educator. She currently hosts and reports for CUNY-TV’s Emmy-award winning “Asian American Life,” a magazine show focusing on the fast growing and dynamic Asian American community. Since it's debut, the show has received more than a dozen Emmy nominations. The show’s Anti-Asian Hate Special recently won a 2022 Silver Telly Award for Social Impact Journalist.
Prior, 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 is also a tenured Journalism professor at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, N.J. and currently serves as faculty chair of the Department of Communication and Media Culture. She is an active member of the community, having served on the boards of the Coalition of Asian American Children and Families, APEX for Youth, Asian American Journalists Association. She is currently serves on the board of Advancement for Rural Kids and Art of Me.
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 and daughter.
