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Elizabeth Hernandez

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 Association鈥檚 Rising Star Award, but her biggest accomplishment is when a source thanks her for listening.

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Gaia Williams poses with her artwork at her apartment in Denver on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. "I know that church communities can be beautiful and religion, itself, isn't necessarily the problem," Williams said. "It's the utter disappointment with the archdiocese. When I was a kid, that made coming out that much more scary." (Photo by Rachel Woolf/Special to the Denver Post)

Denver Archdiocese’s guidance to Catholic schools: Don’t enroll transgender students. Treat gay parents differently.

November 7, 2022 at 9:40 a.m.

This 17-page document obtained by The Denver Post offers guidance to Catholic school administrators on how to handle gay and transgender students, parents and staff. It warns that "the spread...

A teacher of color was let go in Denver. The ripple effects are deep.

August 24, 2022 at 6:03 a.m.

Tim Hern谩ndez, an associate teacher, did not have his contract at Denver's North High School renewed, despite having the support of his English department. Now, he's started a new teaching...

Denver鈥檚 oldest neighborhood was destroyed to build the Auraria Campus. Historians and the displaced are racing to remember it.

March 27, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

As the 50th anniversary of the disbandment of Denver's oldest neighborhood approaches, Colorado historians are eager to capture the stories of the people forced out of that community while they're...

MSU Denver associate professor Jade Luiz oversees a dig while students work the site during an archeological field study in Central City, Colorado, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

MSU Denver archaeology students sift through history at site of Central City brothels

June 20, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Jade Luiz, who documents 19th-century sex work, is training students in the basics of excavation and documentation.

Kids sit on the school bus outside of Stephen Knight Center for Early Education as the school closed early due to extreme heat on Sept. 7, 2022 in Denver. Stephen Knight Center of Early Education is one of more than 30 public schools in Denver without air conditioning that are releasing students early this week or closing entirely due to the record-breaking heat wave sweeping through Colorado. Some of these schools were supposed to have cooling systems installed this summer, Denver Public Schools spokesman Scott Pribble said, but supply chain issues stalled the project. DPS hopes to have some of them completed by the end of September. 脪Mitigation strategies in place aren't expected to work like we hoped,脫 Pribble said, noting that the district has portable air conditioning units and large fans. 脪Because of that, we're making the decision to shut down early.脫 (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Former Denver teacher found guilty of giving pot brownies to middle school students

June 12, 2025 at 6:41 p.m.

A former Denver teacher was found guilty in Denver County Court Thursday of giving pot brownies to two middle school students as an academic reward.

2 Denver students say their middle school teacher gave them pot brownies. She’s now on trial.

June 12, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Sharon Wilson admitted to making pot brownies in the past, but said the ones she gave her students were regular baked goods, her attorney said.

This video still shows a victim being attended to as Mohammed Sabry Soliman, background center, surrenders to a police officer, background right, in front of the Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on Sunday, June 1, 2025. Soliman is accused of injuring 12 people with a 鈥渕akeshift flamethrower鈥� and Molotov cocktails, having spent more than a year planning the 鈥渢argeted act of violence鈥� against a group calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, law enforcement officials say. (Video still via Brian Horwitz)

How the Boulder fire attack unfolded: Calm, confusion, chaos 鈥� 鈥榟e鈥檚 out to kill鈥�

June 3, 2025 at 12:54 p.m.

The Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon was so picture perfect that bystanders didn鈥檛 recognize the first flashes of flame as dangerous.

Law enforcement officials investigate an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. Multiple people were burned, some severely, in what FBI officials described as a targeted attack on an event that called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

What we know about the Pearl Street Mall attack in Boulder

June 4, 2025 at 10:45 a.m.

The man who attacked 12 people Sunday afternoon on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to jail records.

The beheaded Skelly is seen lying in Taryn Marshall's backyard in Arvada. (Photo courtesy of Taryn Marshall)

Who beheaded a beloved 12-foot-tall skeleton in Arvada?

June 12, 2025 at 12:10 p.m.

"I was so mad yesterday, I was shaking," said Marshall, Skelly's owner. "Why would someone want to take that away and do it in such a horrific manner?"

Vedanth Raju, 12, of Aurora spells his word in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on May 28, 2025, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Colorado’s 2 spellers knocked out of competition at Scripps National Spelling Bee

May 28, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Vedanth 鈥淰ed鈥� Raju, 12, survived nine rounds and was among the final 20 contestants still standing in the semifinals before being outdone by the mineral 鈥渆llestadite鈥� in the 10th round.

LEFT: Speller Ved Raju, of Denver, representing The Denver Post, competes in a preliminary round for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 27, 2025 in National Harbor, MD. RIGHT: Speller Blanche Li, of Boulder, Colorado, representing Boulder Valley School District, competes in a preliminary round for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 27, 2025 in National Harbor, MD. (Photos by Craig Hudson/Scripps National Spelling Bee)

Colorado brainiacs breeze through first three rounds at spelling bee

May 28, 2025 at 3:01 p.m.

Ved Raju aced 鈥渇aipule鈥� and Blanche Li nailed 鈥淚nuk鈥� in the Scripps National Spelling Bee鈥檚 first round.

In this May 2, 1980, photo, Jacques Bailly of Denver, left, poses for a photo after winning the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. He correctly spelled the word "elucubrate." (AP Photo/File)

Denver has sent the most champions to the Scripps National Spelling Bee

May 26, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Seven spellers who advanced from Colorado State Spelling Bee in Denver have won the national contest during its 100-year history

Oden the African lion says hello at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. His sister, Tsylia, left, walks past. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Lions roaring at 2 a.m. and beer cans in the bear exhibit: Wild Animal Sanctuary frets over housing development next door

May 16, 2025 at 4:08 p.m.

Because of the Wild Animal Sanctuary's social media callout, developer Sherry Wigaard said they鈥檙e now facing death threats: 鈥淚鈥檓 75 years old, and I鈥檓 getting bullied. It抖阴ap devastating.鈥�