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ELLEN SNORTLAND RESUME
  Attorney with twenty years of TV, film, theater and print experience: Writer, Commentator, Performer, Producer, Consultant, University Lecturer, Writing Coach, NGO activist, Violence Prevention Advocate and Instructor.
PRINT AUTHOR
    Beauty Bites Beast:
Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls

1st Edition, Trilogy Books, Pasadena, 2nd Ed., B3 Books, Lightning Press
  REGULAR COLUMNIST
    "Consider This" Pasadena Weekly   12 years
CONTRIBUTOR Ms Magazine
  FREELANCE COLUMNIST
    Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Daily News, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Arizona Tribune Newspapers, Houston Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Charlotte Observer, Steele Country Press (N.D.), Providence Journal-Bulletin, Rapid City Journal (S.D.), Sacramento Bee, Troy Record (N.Y), On the Issues: A Progressive Woman's Quarterly
THEATER
  One woman show "Now That She's Gone"  Written and performed by Ms. Snortland [Separate theater résumé available on request]
BROADCAST COMMENTATOR
  "What A Week"/KNBC Los Angeles, CA With Fritz Coleman.
Commentator/Writer for weekly segment. Specialized in women's issues and current events.
  SPECIAL GUEST/COMMENTATOR
  · Case Closed/USA Network (2 episodes) Children's safety Los Angeles, CA
  · Jane Whitney/Syndicated Boston, MA
  · KCET Documentary on Children's Self-defense, KCET (PBS) Los Angeles, CA
  · Dateline NBC   Curbing Violence Against Women, February 15, 1999 National
  CO-HOST/CONTRIBUTOR
  · "This Just In"/WBZ-TV Boston, MA Irreverent look at the news.
  PANELIST
  · "Back Talk" NBC/Group W Chicago, IL
  · News and current events panelist. Humorous and irreverent. (Co-panelists; Dr. Bertice Berry, Talk show host; Judy Markey, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times ).
  REPORTER/HUMORIST/WRITER
  · TV Lite"/KCRA-TV Sacramento, CA
  · Daily afternoon and evening show. Tongue-in-cheek but real news.
PRODUCTION/WRITING
  PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
  · "Beauty Bites Beast/La Bella Muerde a la Bestia" the film Altadena, CA
  · "Totally Hidden Video" Fox Los Angeles, CA
  · "The New Candid Camera" (pilot) KingWorld Los Angeles, CA
  WRITER/SEGMENT PRODUCER
  · "The Tim and Daphne Reid Show" KingWorld Los Angeles, CA
  WRITER
  · "Opposite Sex" Barry & Enright game show pilot Los Angeles, CA
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
· Actor: TV-Series regular. Commercials. Voice-over talent-worked with Shelley Duvall, Shari Lewis, Sega
· Live Events Planner and Producer-venues include Pasadena Auditorium, Hollywood Palace
· Self-Defense Advocate: Instructor and Spokesperson for The IMPACT Foundation and KIDPOWER
PUBLIC SPEAKING
· (select list)
ACLU Feminist Forum/Los Angeles, CA:  Sexual Harassment
· KFI, KABC & KPFK/Los Angeles, CA:  Sexual Harassment and Children's Self-Defense
· Cal State Long Beach/Long Beach, CA:  Sexual Harassment
· UCLA Extension - Autobiographical Writing (Guest Speaker)
· Occidental College and United Nation's Association - Beyond Beijing Conference
· University of Nebraska, Lincoln: guest legal and media lecturer
· AAUW, various chapters
· Pasadena YWCA
· Pasadena Friends Commission on the Status of Women
· Guest Lecturer: USC, UND
EDUCATION/ASSOCIATIONS
· Juris Doctor, Loyola Law School 1977
· BA Cum Laude University of California, Irvine, Theater and Film 1973
· Member, California State Bar Association (inactive)
· Former Member, California Legislative Press Corps
· UNA Delegate and Press corps member to United Nations Beijing Conference on Women, 1995
· UNA Delegate and Press corps member to UN World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa, 2001
· UNA Delegate and Press corps member to the U.N. 47th & 48th Commission on the Status of Women
· Landmark Education: Curriculum for Living; Wisdom Courses; Creation of Freedom
· Board Member: The Impact Foundation; Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights; UNA-Pasadena/Foothills Chapter; Pasadena Friends of the Commission on the Status of Women; Fifty-Fifty Leadership; Action Committee for Women in Prison
WRITING SAMPLES/REEL & REFERENCES ON REQUEST

Ellen Snortland
2591 N. Fair Oaks Ave. #112 Altadena, CA  91001

Phone 626-798-8421 fax 626-798-8564
Email Ellen Snortland ellen@snortland.com

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