Ellen Stein will assume the full-time responsibilities of Opinion Editor for The Journal in Cortez and The Durango Herald after significantly contributing to the varied content of the opinion pages since September.
She is returning to the position after editing the pages between 2016 and 2018. Stein has lived in Durango since 2005. From 2002 to 2006, she led the Mountain Studies Institute in Silverton, serving as its first and founding executive director, and since has held varied mission-oriented nonprofit and for-profit positions across southwest Colorado.
Stein is enthusiastic about serving the Montezuma County community again, through opinion journalism, building on her varied background, relationships and knowledge of the region and state.
She looks forward to continuing to solicit and select thoughtful content, curate community contributions, opinion columns, letters to the editor and, with the Chair of the opinion page, Richard G. Ballantine, opine about issues of importance to our community on occasion, we hope, with some humor.
Ellen served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa and earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art from Colorado College and a master’s degree in public policy and planning from Tufts University.
Have an idea? Something on your mind? Visit the-journal.com/opinion or email Ellen at estein@bcimedia.com.
