Ellen Stone Belic

Ellen Stone Belic is a private practice psychotherapist in Chicago and has been a member of the Columbia College Chicago adjunct faculty since 1982 where she taught psychology and humanities. Ellen has a long standing interest in women and the arts. She conducted a study for the Institute for Clinical Social Work on mother’s experience of their daughter’s adolescence. She is a co-founder of Gender Matters, a co-operative group at Francis Parker School involving parents, teachers and administrators looking at issues of gender in education.

Presently, she serves: as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Columbia College Chicago; on the Board of In These Times, a Chicago based progressive political magazine; and, as director of the Jerome H. Stone Family Foundation. She is currently working on a memoir about the loss of her husband at sea. Ellen is also mom to two daughters, Dara and Maia.