The former vice president of corporate communications for International Creative Management, Ellen also co-founded Rob Reiner’s I Am Your Child Foundation and helped build it from the ground up. She spent several years as a marketing consultant for the Skoll Foundation, which invests in social entrepreneurs around the world.

Ellen is one of the eight women who co-founded Stand Up to Cancer, whose mission is to raise awareness and fund research to detect and treat cancers with the aspiration to turn every patient into a survivor.  The organization has raised more than $1 billion to date and has funded more than 3000 researchers, resulting in several FDA-approved cancer therapies.

She has been a marketing and communications consultant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and worked with the Global Philanthropy Group to design and implement a philanthropic strategy for the late Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.  In 2023, Ellen helped establish the Matthew Perry Foundation and served for a year as their chief development officer.

She is currently the consulting producer of a new PBS series called “Climate Kitchen” hosted by Billie Eilish’s mom, Maggie Baird, and premiering on digital and broadcast in 2027 and also serves as a development strategist for PBS.  Ellen is the interim executive director of the Retinal Science Foundation, which is focused on preventing preventable blindness, restoring lost vision, and developing cures and treatments for blinding eye diseases. She also serves on the board of the UCLA Resnick neuropsychiatric hospital.