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Ellen Snortland

Ellen Snortland is a writer, content creator, writing coach, activist and advocate for women’s self-defense.

Early Life

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Ellen Snortland was born August 27, 1953 in Denver, Colorado and raised in South Dakota. She graduated at age 16 from Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota, just as the women’s movement was taking shape.

Career and Higher Education

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Ellen moved to California to become a member of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria. She co-founded an all-woman theater company in Los Angeles, Theater of Process, featured in an early issue of Ms. Magazine. [1] Ellen received her BA Cum Laude in theater and film from UC Irvine. Ellen graduated law school at Loyola, Los Angeles and passed the California Bar.

Ellen became a working actor doing voiceovers and commercials. She appeared in "The Fall Guy", "Divorce Court" and Paramount’s TV's “Anything for Money.”[2]

Ellen's output as a content creator spans 3 decades.

Books

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Beauty Bites Beast (1998,2001,2016): The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence.

From the dust jacket: "Why are females of other species as fierce in self-defense as males -- except for female humans? Ellen Snortland takes on the politics of learned helplessness and clears a path back to natural female strength." Gloria Stienem.  

Featured on Dateline NBC [3] and now in its 3rd edition, this book has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew and Korean.

The Safety Godmothers (2014): The ABCs of Awareness, Boundaries and Confidence for Teens.

Documentaries

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  • Beauty Bites Beast (2015) (trailer)[4] (full documentary) [5]
  • TEDxPasadena: We all need to be safe before we can thrive[6]

Periodicals

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  • Pasadena Weekly: "Consider this...", a regular weekly column for 25 years[7]
  • Huffington Post[8]
  • Ms Magazine[9]
  • Los Angeles Argonaut[10]
  • Los Angeles Downtown News[11]

Awards

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  • Woman of the Year: Awarded by Representative Adam Schiff for the 29th Congressional District[12]
  • Los Angeles Press Club 2024 Journalist of the Year, 2024 Columnist of the Year[13]
  • Los Angeles Press Club 2019 Columnist of the Year[14]
  • Beauty Bites Beast (Film): Best documentary at the 4th annual Artemis Women in Action Film Festival[15] [16]

References

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  1. ^ "Women's Rights in Los Angeles, 1850-1980 (see page 78)" (PDF).
  2. ^ "IMDB: Ellen Snortland". IMDb.
  3. ^ "DateLine NBC: (Ellen appears at 2:19)". YouTube. 8 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Beauty Bites Beast, Trailer". YouTube. 9 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Beauty Bites Beast, Full Documentary". YouTube. 15 August 2024.
  6. ^ "TEDx Pasadena". YouTube. 27 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Pasadena Weekly News: Opinion".
  8. ^ "Huffington Post Author's Page: Ellen Snortland".
  9. ^ "Ms Magazine Author Page: Ellen Snortland".
  10. ^ "Los Angeles Argonaut: Opinion".
  11. ^ "Los Angeles Downtown News: Opinion".
  12. ^ "The Congressional Record 112th Congress (2011 - 2012)".
  13. ^ "Los Angeles Press Club 2024 Award Winners" (PDF).
  14. ^ "Los Angeles Press Club 2019 Award Winners" (PDF).
  15. ^ "Article: Pasadena Weekly". 12 April 2018.
  16. ^ "Artemis Film Festival 2018 Winners".