Janice Ellis - Retired Executive, Author and Commentator Information

Janice S. Ellis, M.A., M.A., Ph.D., has been an executive throughout her career, first in government, then in a large pharmaceutical company, later as President and CEO of a marketing firm, and finally as President and CEO of a bi-state non-profit child advocacy agency. Along with those positions, she has been writing columns for nearly four decades on race, politics, education, and other social issues for a major metropolitan daily newspaper, Kansas City Star; a major metropolitan business journal, Milwaukee Business Journal; and for community newspapers The Milwaukee Courier, The Kansas City Globe, and The Kansas City Call. She wrote radio commentary for two years for one of the largest ABC radio affiliates in Wisconsin and subsequently wrote and delivered a two-minute spot on the two largest Arbitron-rated radio stations in the Greater Kansas City area. She has also written for several national trade publications, focusing on healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. Currently, she is a columnist for the Missouri Independent. She has her website, JaniceSEllis.com, which houses a collection of her writings and where she continues to write commentary. Dr. Ellis's four books: From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream -- New Edition (2023), which is receiving awards and great reviews; USING MY WORD POWER: Advocating for a More Civilized Society (2022), has received great editorial reviews and was a first-place winner of the Nellie Bly Nonfiction Journalism Award; Shaping Public Opinion: How Real Advocacy Journalism™ Should Be Practiced (2021) won the Nellie Bly Nonfiction Journalism Award and the Gold Medal Award for nonfiction books from the Non-Fiction Author Association. It has received great national editorial reviews and continues to receive great customer reviews. The first edition of From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream (2018) has received several national and international awards since its initial release.