Katherine Ellison
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Katherine Ellison http://www.katherineellison.com/ is an investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and writing consultant.
for International Reporting for a series of articles that exposed how Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had looted the Philippines' treasury and clandestinely purchased properties in the United States. Other journalism prizes Katherine has won include; The National Association of Hispanic Journalists
' first-place award, in 1997, for coverage of problems with privatizations in Mexico and Argentina; The Inter-American Press Association's first-place award for feature-writing, won in both 1994 and 1995, for stories on politics and culture in South America; The Latin American Studies Association Media Award, in 1994, for several years of excellence in regional coverage; The Overseas Press Club Award, in 1989, for human rights reporting in Mexico and Nicaragua; The George Polk Award and The Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, in 1986, for coverage of the Philippines.
, and an excerpt from the book was featured in the May edition of Self Magazine. Time Magazine featured an interview with Ms. Ellison about The Mommy Brain in the April 25 edition http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1053659,00.html. Ellison's New York Times "Mommy Brain"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/opinion/08ellison.html?pagewanted=print op-ed on May 8 turned out to be the Times' most emailed article for two days straight. Katherine’s writings were published in publications such as: Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/wiki.html, Working Mother, The Atlantic Magazine http://www.conservationmagazine.org/articles/v7n2/get-real/?PHPSESSID=21592cc326be45ccfb89b9c936579db5, Fortune Magazine http://www.climateneutral.com/images/FortuneMagazineArticle.pdf, Monthly Magazine and Conservation in Practice. Her consulting work includes; speechwriting for: google.org and Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, Editing and writing for: Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Native Conservancy and Stanford University. She writes a monthly column for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment which was published by The Ecological Society of America and is a member of N. 24th non-fiction writers group. She also wrote an essay in the book Read, Reason, Write 8th edition.
, making for such a tumultuous relationship that the two ultimately faced three choices: he’d go to boarding school; she’d go to boarding school, or they’d make it a full-time project to work out their problems together. They embarked on the third option, while Katherine devoted her professional skills to investigating what genuine relief, if any, might be found in the confusing array of goods sold by our modern mental health industry. This is the story told in her new memoir, "Buzz."
Awards
Ellison won the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
for International Reporting for a series of articles that exposed how Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had looted the Philippines' treasury and clandestinely purchased properties in the United States. Other journalism prizes Katherine has won include; The National Association of Hispanic Journalists
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to the advancement of Hispanic journalists in the United States and Puerto Rico...
' first-place award, in 1997, for coverage of problems with privatizations in Mexico and Argentina; The Inter-American Press Association's first-place award for feature-writing, won in both 1994 and 1995, for stories on politics and culture in South America; The Latin American Studies Association Media Award, in 1994, for several years of excellence in regional coverage; The Overseas Press Club Award, in 1989, for human rights reporting in Mexico and Nicaragua; The George Polk Award and The Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, in 1986, for coverage of the Philippines.
Works and Features
Katherine has written four books: Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention (forthcoming from Hyperion Voice in October 2010, The Mommy Brain http://themommybrain.com/: How motherhood makes us smarter, The New Economy of Nature http://www.katherineellison.com/: The quest to make conservation profitable, Imelda http://www.katherineellison.com/: Steel butterfly of the Philippines. The Mommy Brain is currently being translated into Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German, Indonesian and Dutch. Katherine Ellison has appeared on The CBS Early Show, The Today ShowThe Today Show
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, and an excerpt from the book was featured in the May edition of Self Magazine. Time Magazine featured an interview with Ms. Ellison about The Mommy Brain in the April 25 edition http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1053659,00.html. Ellison's New York Times "Mommy Brain"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/opinion/08ellison.html?pagewanted=print op-ed on May 8 turned out to be the Times' most emailed article for two days straight. Katherine’s writings were published in publications such as: Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/wiki.html, Working Mother, The Atlantic Magazine http://www.conservationmagazine.org/articles/v7n2/get-real/?PHPSESSID=21592cc326be45ccfb89b9c936579db5, Fortune Magazine http://www.climateneutral.com/images/FortuneMagazineArticle.pdf, Monthly Magazine and Conservation in Practice. Her consulting work includes; speechwriting for: google.org and Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, Editing and writing for: Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Native Conservancy and Stanford University. She writes a monthly column for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment which was published by The Ecological Society of America and is a member of N. 24th non-fiction writers group. She also wrote an essay in the book Read, Reason, Write 8th edition.
Travels
Ms. Ellison has traveled underground with Eritrean guerrillas fighting the Ethiopian government, reported from the front lines of U.S.-backed wars in Central America, hunted for Nazis in Paraguay and Argentina and spent a week traveling with a band of Huichol Indians during their annual ceremonial peyote hunt in central Mexico. She has been taken hostage by Mexican peasants, arrested by Cuban police, tear-gassed in Panama, chased by killer bees and required to watch more World Cup events than she cares to remember. She now lives in the San Francisco, California, Bay Area, where life is somewhat calmer.http://www.katherineellison.com/Other information
Katherine Ellison is married to Jack Epstein, foreign editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2007, she and her 12-year-old son, nicknamed Buzz, were diagnosed with Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderAttention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a developmental disorder. It is primarily characterized by "the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone" and symptoms starting before seven years of age.ADHD is the most commonly studied and...
, making for such a tumultuous relationship that the two ultimately faced three choices: he’d go to boarding school; she’d go to boarding school, or they’d make it a full-time project to work out their problems together. They embarked on the third option, while Katherine devoted her professional skills to investigating what genuine relief, if any, might be found in the confusing array of goods sold by our modern mental health industry. This is the story told in her new memoir, "Buzz."