Ellen Seidler is a 23-year broadcast journalism and film veteran. She worked for ABC News in New York as an assignment editor, then joined KRON-TV in San Francisco as a photojournalist and editor. Currently, she is a lecturer in Digital Media at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and tenured professor of Media & Communication Arts at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, CA. She also teaches for the Knight Foundation's multimedia training workshops. She received her B.A .in Fine Arts from Harvard University, and her M.A. in Journalism from UC Berkeley.

Ellen has also worked on a variety of independent film and documentary projects. Her directing credits include: "Fighting for Our Lives-Facing AIDS in San Francisco" and the lesbian erotic short "Et L'Amour." She is a contributing writer for the Logo Online website AfterEllen.com and creator of the non-profit website, www.breastcancernetwork.org.

Ellen currently  is in production (as co-producer, co-director) for a film "And Then Came Lola" shooting in San Francisco fall 2007.  The HD feature, with stars Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono and Jessica Graham,  will be released late 2008.

Ellen is an avid cyclist, soccer mom, fan of the Cal women's basketball team and tv's "South of Nowhere."