About Ellen

Career and workplace advisor Ellen Gordon Reeves is the author of Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview? featured in media including CNN, 
US News and World Report, Essence, EXTRA, The Early Show, ABC Money Matters, Fox News Edge, CBS MoneyWatch.Com, and NPR’s Morning Edition. Trained in comedy writing and improvisation at Second City, Reeves is a frequent public speaker, consulting to individuals and institutions. She offers her interactive Extreme Professional Makeover and Communications Crash Course boot camps across the country. Reeves has been a blogger for LearnVest and Jobs for Change/Change.org and is now QuantNet’s career columnist. Formerly Executive Editor of The New Press and past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, Reeves serves on advisory boards at The American Repertory Theater and The Harvard Art Museums. She is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Master of Arts in Writing and Teaching Writing from Northeastern University.