Ellen Szabo, M.Ed., is the primary writing instructor for the annual Creative Writing Workshop for Social Workers. She is the founder of Szabo Creative Consulting, promoting the use of creative writing for personal investigation, enrichment and social change. She earned her B.A. from Harvard College, with a concentration in English and American Literature, and her M.Ed. from Columbia University Teacher’s College, in Counseling Psychology. She writes and teaches with focus on how innovation and creativity can illuminate, inspire and advocate compassionate transformation. Guest speakers will share experiences with projects related to creative writing for social change, journaling for personal growth, and/or the written word as a tool for enhancing social justice.

Work Experience

1995 - present – Write Now - Creative Writing workshops, seminars, lectures and individual developmental editing and writing coaching for beginning, intermediate and advanced writers, fiction and nonfiction