Ellen Blum Barish is a writer, editor and educator. Her feature articles have appeared in Newsweek, Self, The Chicago Tribune and North Shore magazine and she has worked as an editor at several Chicago-area publishing companies. She is author of a personal essay collection titled Views from the Home Office Window and many of her essays have aired as radio commentaries on WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio. Ellen has taught academic and business writing at many local universities including Northwestern. She currently teaches personal essay workshops at StoryStudio Chicago (including a workshop on spiritual essays), New Trier Extension, Off Campus Writers Workshop and WritersWorkspace. She has a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Ellen and her family have been Beth Emet members since 1996. She taught religious school from 2001- 2005 after becoming a b’nai mitzvah. Ellen has been on the adult education committee and part of Rabbi London’s Spiritual Practice/Beyond Om gatherings. She is on the board of SoulSpace, an interfaith women’s group, and has co-facilitated an interfaith writing circle of clergy and laywomen and several interfaith retreats.
To find out more, go to http://www.ellenblumbarish.com/
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