Ellen Abraham is a cultural leader with a specialized history in design management, entrepreneurship, business development and design-based advocacy. She is currently a Senior Project Manager at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and was voted the Vice-President of SOM’s Women’s Initiative employee-resource group. She co-founded SOM’s Equity Design Lab, which is dedicated to enabling SOM’s teams to deliver equitable, healthy and resilient built environments where communities can thrive.

Ellen holds a B.Arch from City College of New York, where she was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Project Award. She has an MBA with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and International Management from Northwestern University.

She is passionate about helping international students and job candidates, advancing equity in the field of architecture, and advocating for community-positive design works. To further celebrate design diversity, she founded a startup called Architect Pins®.