Katherine Esther Ellison

Background

Ellison, Katherine Esther was born on August 19, 1957 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Ellis and Bernice June (Bender) Ellison.

Education

Bachelor in International Relations, Stanford University, 1979.

Career

Ellison has authored and co-authored seven books, including: "Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America"s Schools," Square Peg: My Story and What it Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers, published by Hyperion Voice in March 2013. Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention, Hyperion Voice, 2010, The Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter (2005), The New Economy of Nature: The quest to make conservation profitable, Imelda: Steel butterfly of the Philippines. To promote her 2005 book The Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter, Ellison appeared on The Columbia Broadcasting System Early Show, The Today Show, and an excerpt from the book was featured in the May edition of Self Magazine.

TIME featured an interview with Ellison about The Mommy Brain in the April 25, 2005 edition

The New York Times published an op-ed by Ellison entitled "Mommy Brain" on May 8, 2005. Ellison"s writings have been published in publications such as Smithsonian Magazine, Working Mother, ConservationMagazine.org, Fortune Magazine, Monthly Magazine, and Conservation in Practice.

Her consulting work includes speechwriting for Google.org and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Editing and writing for David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Native Conservancy and Stanford University.

She also wrote an essay in the book Read, Reason, Write 8th edition

Achievements

• Katherine Esther Ellison has been listed as a noteworthy journalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

She writes a monthly column for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and is a member of the North 24th Writers.

Connections

Father:

Ellis Ellison

Mother:

Bernice June (Bender) Ellison