Sarah Kate Ellis Biography
American media executive, writer, and journalist Sarah Kate Ellis is also a journalist. In January 2014, Ellis was appointed president and chief executive officer of GLAAD, the largest LGBT media advocacy group in the United States.
Sarah Kate Ellis Age
She will turn 51 on November 27, 2022. She was born in the United States’ Staten Island in 1971.
Sarah Kate Ellis Family – Education
Ellis attended Staten Island Academy while growing up in the borough. She and her older brother Spencer were raised by their parents, Barbara and Ken Ellis. Ellis was chosen in 2011 to participate in the Tuck Executive Education course at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, which he finished in 2012.
Sarah Kate Ellis Partner – Wife
The last year of her undergraduate career was when Ellis came out as a lesbian. Times Two, Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made is a book that Ellis co-wrote with her wife, Kristen Ellis-Henderson. It was released by Simon & Schuster in 2011. The book was up for a Stonewall Book Award and details their parallel pregnancies and transition to parenthood. The couple was featured on the “Gay Marriage Already Won” cover of TIME Magazine in 2013.
In addition, Ellis and her spouse were the focus of The Huffington Post’s three-part documentary web series “Here Come the Brides” and a special New York Times Style article about marriage equality when it became legal in New York State. They were selected as one of GO Magazine’s Most Captivating Couples of 2012 and are the moms of two kids. Ellis’ wedding became the first same-sex union celebrated by the Episcopal Church in New York State.
Sarah Kate Ellis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Sarah Kate Ellis Salary
She earns an estimated annual salary of $159,627.
Sarah Kate Ellis Career
In 1995, Ellis started a career in the media. Condé Nast, a major media company, was where she started her career, laying the foundation for her future success. Condé Nast’s House and Garden was where Ellis started her career. Before joining In Style as a director, she first worked as a senior manager at New York magazine. Ellis moved to Vogue after leaving In Style to establish and oversee the turnaround of Real Simple, where she oversaw ten lifestyle group properties. Ellis was excellent at marketing and showed her skills best in positions of leadership.
By co-chairing OUT at Time Inc., the company’s LGBT employee resource group, where she oversaw programs to emphasize the variety of the LGBT community (2008–2013), Ellis broadened the scope of her work.
In 1992, Ellis marched in Washington to support women’s rights. The following year, she marched once more to support LGBT rights. On January 1, 2014, Ellis was appointed president and chief executive officer of GLAAD, the only group in the country working to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality via the media.
2014 saw Ellis’ debut campaign for GLAAD, which focused on the parade’s exclusion of lesbian and LGBT participation, against the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. In a piece that appeared in the New York Daily News[5], Ellis discussed her Irish-American heritage and sexual orientation while pleading with the parade’s organizers to remove the ban.