Ella Nilsen

Ella is a former NHPR News intern. She graduated in May 2013 from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in History and minors in Writing and Asian Studies.  Her studies abroad were at St. Andrews University in Scotland.  While at UNH, Ella served as editor-in-chief, design editor and contributing writer for Main Street Magazine, a publication that won UNH’s Best Student Publication award for 2013.  Outside of UNH, Ella  contributed articles to the Union Leader as a freelance reporter and was an editorial intern at the Littleton Courier.  She was the recipient of a competitive grant for a project that explored the history of Russian-Jewish immigration to the United States and related family history.  Ella lives in Portsmouth.