Our Team: Ellen LaPointe

ellen-lapointe.jpgEllen LaPointe

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Ellen LaPointe is responsible for developing key strategic private and public sector partnerships to increase HopeLab’s institutional resources, leverage the potential impact of its innovative solutions, and raise awareness of HopeLab’s work among thought leaders and key stakeholders. She assumed the role of Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in May 2007 following a two-year tenure as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at HopeLab.

Ellen has extensive experience in organizational leadership, strategy development and implementation, partnership cultivation, fund development, communications, financial management, and program oversight. Prior to joining HopeLab, Ellen served as Executive Director of Project Inform, a national nonprofit AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization. She was Director of Clinical Research at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco from 1992 to 1996, and Coordinator of the Brown University AIDS Program from 1990 to 1992. Ellen is also an attorney and was an associate attorney at the firm of Heller Ehrman LLP in San Francisco from 1999 to 2001.

Ellen received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Community Health from Brown University in 1989 and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt School of Law in 1999.