Denise-Marie Ordway joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after reporting for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer. She received various national, regional and state-level journalism awards and, in 2013, was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigative series she led.
Ordway, a 2014-15 Fellow of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, serves on the board of directors to the national Education Writers Association. She attended Daytona Beach Community College, going on to earn a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of North Florida and a master’s degree in higher education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ordway grew up in Oak Hill, Florida.
An interesting fact: Ordway wrote and sold a screenplay about abolitionist John Brown and his attempt in 1859 to start an armed revolt of enslaved people by raiding the national armory in Harpers Ferry.
