Trained as an historian, Ellen Chesler, Ph.D. is author of the critically praised biography, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, which has remained in print for 34 years. She has co-edited two anthologies, Where Human Rights Begin (2005) and Women and Girls Rising (2015), and she has written more than 100 essays and articles in prominent publications. Early in her career she served in government as Chief of Staff to New York City Council President, Carol Bellamy, the first woman ever elected to a citywide office. And she later spent a decade as a senior fellow at the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, overseeing a broad portfolio of grants to organizations and individuals advancing and protecting women’s rights around the world. Long active in progressive politics, she is recognized for both the practical and intellectual perspectives she brings to her work.. With her husband, Matthew Mallow, she has been a Hamptons homeowner since 1983.
