Ellie Carlough is currently Associate Director of MIT Collaborative Initiatives (MIT-CI) and has been with the organization since September 2007.  In this role, she is actively involved in project management, writing and strategic planning for MIT-CI, which applies a system-based approach to addressing widespread societal issues reaching a crisis point.

Ellie graduated from Mount Holyoke College and earned a Masters of Science in Non-profit Management from the New School for Social Research in New York, New York.  After working in Manhattan for 10 years in banking and most recently as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center of New York, Ms. Carlough spent a time in the challenging position of full-time mother mastering the art of multi-tasking and social networking before joining MIT-CI.