Erin Ellison

Erin Ellison

Palos Verdes, CA

Erin Ellison is a Broadcast Journalism Major and a senior within the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. After making a documentary about an artisan doughnut called a “Fonut,”—Don’t Call It A Doughnut!— she decided to join the Impact team in May 2015. Erin hopes to continue her passion for long-form journalism and everything documentary.  What Erin finds to be most rewarding is to help people share their stories, and to be able to tell those stories in an artful way. You can follow Erin on Twitter at @ErinEEllison

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Fonuts

September 24, 2015

A hobbyist baker’s gluten-intolerance led to the donut’s trendy reinvention.