ABOUT ME

Kevin Ellis is a communications consultant and writer working at the nexus of political and cultural change.

Kevin’s prior experience includes senior positions at two political consulting firms where he ran strategy campaigns, crisis communications, speech writing and public relations efforts for clients nationwide.

He has advised senior non-profit and private sector executives on sensitive strategy and communications questions in all sectors, including Vermont’s historic marriage equality campaign.

He was a co-founder of Ellis Mills Public Affairs and spent 22 years at KSE Partners, LLC, a leading government affairs and communications firm.

Kevin spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter in Nashville, Washington, DC and Burlington, Vermont where he covered politics and environmental issues. As Washington correspondent for The Tennessean in Nashville, he covered presidential campaigns, energy and national security issues.

He was a reporter for the late Jack Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist who was targeted for assassination by the Nixon administration during the Watergate era.

Kevin grew up at the Jersey Shore and lives in Vermont.

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Kevin is the president of the Board of Directors of Downstreet Housing & Community Development, a non-profit affordable housing organization in central Vermont.

He also sits on the boards of the Vermont Journalism Trust and Chelsea Green Publishing and is a mentor in the local high school’s community-based learning program.