Katherine Ellison
Awards
Working for the San Jose Mercury News in 1985, Ellison along with Lewis M. Simmons and Pete Carey exposed how Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had looted the Philippines treasury and clandestinely purchased properties in the United States. They shared the Pulitzer 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."[1] She has won other journalism prizes including 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 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
Ellison has written five books: 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,[2] The New Economy of Nature: The quest to make conservation profitable, Imelda: 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 Show, and an excerpt from the book was featured in the May edition of Self Magazine. TIME featured an interview with Ms. Ellison about The Mommy Brain in the April 25 edition.[3] Ellison's New York Times "Mommy Brain" op-ed on May 8[4] turned out to be the Times' most emailed article for two days straight. Katherine’s writings were published in publications such as: Smithsonian Magazine,[5] Working Mother, The Atlantic Magazine,[6] Fortune Magazine,[7] 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
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.
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 disorder, 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."
References
External links
- Official website
- "On the Fly with Katherine Ellison" – An Interview with Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics
- Katherine Ellison at Library of Congress Authorities, with 3 catalog records
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