Ellen Snortland
Ellen Snortland is lawyer, teacher, media, theater, creative writing teacher, first time author book coach and empowerment self-defense instructor. She is a regular opinion columnist for the Pasadena Weekly, and various blogs including the Huffington Post. Ellen has been a speaker, U.N. Press Corps credentialed journalist and delegate for major United Nations World Conferences: the Women’s conference in Beijing and Conference Against Racism in South Africa, and the Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. She was the president and co-president of the United Nations Association, Pasadena Chapter for years as well as being on the board.
Snortland got her BA in Theater and Film at UC Irvine and her J.D. at Loyola Law School in LA. She has participated with Landmark Worldwide educational programs since 1973. Ellen is the playwright and performer of a one woman show, “Now That She’s Gone,” which premiered at the New York Fringe Festival. She is the director/writer/producer of the documentary Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence. (Movie trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/BBB-Trailer-2016)
