Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Ellen attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 2018 with a B.A. in political science and East Asian languages and civilizations. She came to Princeton from Washington, D.C., where she worked as research associate for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ellen first became interested in the Korean Peninsula in 2009, when she traveled to South Korea to participate in the inaugural Camp Fulbright Junior Internship Program. She lived in South Korea for two years, studying Korean intensively as a recipient of the Boren Scholarship and participant in the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program. Ellen has served as an intern at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Korean Affairs and as a Young Fellow at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center. She was recently awarded the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship in International Affairs, and spent her summer working with the nonprofit global security organization Nuclear Threat Initiative. After graduation, Ellen hopes to work on issues of U.S.-South Korea alliance management and North Korean nuclear nonproliferation. In her free time, she enjoys science fiction, coffee, and travel.