Ellen Brown

Director of Business Development
ebrown@glassroots.org

Ellen brings multifaceted talents to GlassRoots spanning the for-profit, non-profit, entrepreneurial & philanthropic worlds.  She was the Chief Operating Officer at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a premier, independent policy research organization & one of the architects of Essex County Construction Careers Consortium: a program that prepared and placed hundreds of low-income women & men from the greater Newark area in  construction trade union apprenticeships.

Ellen was also a program officer for economic development & microenterprise development at the Ford Foundation in New York & South Africa.  Today, she combines consulting with her own creative business as an independent designer.  She owns & operates The Doll Loft a wholesaler &  retailer of innovative sewing patterns & doll making kits.  Ellen holds an MBA from Columbia University.

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