She is professor of psychology emerita at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage and currently holds the position of Professor of Psychology at the Sage Colleges in Albany and Troy, NY. At age 70 she earned a second master's degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and so began her interest in "positive aging." Ellen is former editor of the journal Women and Therapy, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and past president of the Alaska Psychological Association and APA's Society for the Psychology of Women. Her most recent book (co-edited with Mary Gergen) is Retiring But Not Shy: Feminist Psychologists Create Their Post-Careers. Married to Doug North, and living in Albany, New York, she is mother of four and grandmother of ten.