Sarah Kate Ellis Biography
Sarah Kate Ellis is a media executive, journalist, and novelist from the United States. Ellis was named president and CEO of GLAAD, the biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization in the United States, in January 2014.
How old is Sarah Kate Ellis? – Age
She is 51 years old as of 27 November 2022. She was born in 1971 in Staten Island, New York, United States.
Sarah Kate Ellis Family – Education
Ellis was reared on Staten Island and attended Staten Island Academy. Her parents, Barbara and Ken Ellis, reared her and her older brother Spencer. Ellis was chosen in 2011 to attend the Tuck Executive Education program at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, which he completed in 2012.
Sarah Kate Ellis Partner – Wife
Ellis came out as a lesbian during her final year of college. Ellis co-wrote a memoir with her wife, Kristen Ellis-Henderson, titled Times Two, Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. The autobiography, which chronicles their concurrent pregnancies and journey to parenting, was nominated for a Stonewall Book Award. TIME Magazine highlighted the pair on the “Gay Marriage Already Won” cover in 2013.
Ellis and her wife were also featured in a special New York Times Style section about marriage equality after it was legalized in New York State, and they were the topic of The Huffington Post’s three-part documentary web series “Here Come the Brides.” They are the mothers of two children and were chosen one of GO Magazine’s Most Captivating Couples of 2012. Ellis’ marriage was the Episcopal Church of New York State’s first marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple.
Sarah Kate Ellis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Sarah Kate Ellis Salary
She earns an annual salary of $159,627.
Sarah Kate Ellis Career
Ellis began her career in the media in 1995. She began her career at the media giant Condé Nast, where she established the groundwork for her future success. Ellis began her career with Condé Nast’s House and Garden. She then worked as a senior manager for New York magazine before becoming a director for In Style. Ellis left In Style to create and lead the turnaround of Real Simple, which led her to Vogue, where she handled 10 lifestyle group brands. Ellis excelled in marketing and demonstrated her abilities most effectively in leadership positions.
Ellis expanded the scope of her work by serving as co-chair of OUT at Time Inc., the company’s LGBT employee resource organization, where she led programming to highlight the diversity of the LGBT community (2008-2013).
Ellis began her LGBT advocacy in 1992, when she marched in Washington to promote women’s rights, and then again in 1993 to support LGBT people’s rights. Ellis took over as president and CEO of GLAAD on January 1, 2014, the only organization in the United States fighting to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality via the power of the media.
Ellis’ first campaign at GLAAD was a 2014 protest against the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, emphasizing the parade’s prohibition on lesbian and homosexual participants. Ellis spoke about her Irish-American history and sexual orientation in an article published in the New York Daily News[5], urging parade organizers to lift the prohibition.
