Katherine Ellison | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1957-08-19)August 19, 1957 (age 67) |
| Occupation(s) | Author of books onADHD and motherhood |
| Spouse | Jack Epstein |
| Children | Joey Epstein Joshua Epstein |
Katherine Ellison (born August 19, 1957) is anAmerican author. With two colleagues, she won the 1985Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their work reporting on corruption in the Philippines.
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 byHyperion Voice in March 2013;Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention, Hyperion Voice, 2010,The Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter (2005),[1]The New Economy of Nature: The quest to make conservation profitable,Imelda: Steel butterfly of the Philippines.
To promote her 2005 bookThe Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter, Ellison appeared onThe CBS Early Show,The Today Show, and an excerpt from the book was featured in the May edition ofSelf Magazine.[citation needed]Time featured an interview with Ellison aboutThe Mommy Brain in the April 25, 2005 edition.[2]The New York Times published an op-ed by Ellison entitled "Mommy Brain" on May 8, 2005.[3]
Ellison's writings have been published in publications such asWorking Mother, ConservationMagazine.org,[4]Fortune,[5]Monthly Magazine, andConservation in Practice.
Her consulting work includes speechwriting for Google.org andKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; editing and writing forDavid and Lucile Packard Foundation, theFord Foundation, theNative Conservancy andStanford University.[citation needed]She writes a monthly column forFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment and is a member of theNorth 24th Writers. She also wrote an essay in the bookRead, Reason, Write 8th edition.[citation needed]
Working for theSan Jose Mercury News in 1985, Ellison along withLewis M. Simmons andPete Carey wrote about howFerdinand andImelda Marcos had looted thePhilippines treasury and clandestinely purchased properties in the United States. They were jointly awarded thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting, citing "their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States."[6]
She has won other journalism prizes including theNational Association of Hispanic Journalists first-place award, in 1997, for coverage of problems with privatizations in Mexico and Argentina; theInter American Press Association first-place award for feature-writing, won in both 1994 and 1995, for stories on politics and culture in South America; theLatin American Studies Association Media Award, in 1994, for several years of excellence in regional coverage; theOverseas Press Club Award, in 1989, for human rights reporting in Mexico and Nicaragua; theGeorge Polk Award and theInvestigative Reporters and Editors Award, in 1986, for coverage of the Philippines.[citation needed]
Ellison lives inSan Anselmo, California and is married to Jack Epstein, foreign editor at theSan Francisco Chronicle. They have two sons, Joey and Joshua Epstein.[7]
In 2007, then-48-year-old Ellison and her then-12-year-old son "Buzz," were diagnosed withAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder and had a tumultuous relationship which Ellison describes in her memoir "Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention" (2010).[8][9]
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