Ellen Urbani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ellen Urbani
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 21, 1969(1969-03-21)
Age	55
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Ellen Urbani Biography

Ellen Urbani is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 21, 1969 in Philadelphia, United States. Ellen Urbani (born March 21 in 1969) is an American author who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has published two books The first is In the Moment I Was Elena (The Permanent Press 2006) as well as an Book Sense Notable selection and Landfall (Forest Avenue Press in 2015).

From 1994 until from 1994 to Urbani worked in the area of oncology counseling, developing and implementing therapeutic arts program for patients with cancer and their families in hospitals like Legacy Health System and Oregon Health Sciences University and many other institutions. She also was advisor to the board of directors of the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences located at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California; served as the executive director, and then president of board of directors of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare taught/led for the nationally touring faculty of The American Art Therapy Association’s Medical Art Therapy Symposium; and was Mental Health Specialist for The Oregon Disaster Medical Team. Her work was the basis of a short documentary called Paint Me a Future that was awarded the Juror’s Prize to be the Best at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2000.

Urbani’s debut novel, Landfall (Forest Avenue Press, 2015), is a work of historical fiction set in the Deep South – primarily Tuscaloosa, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana – in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Urbani’s first book, the memoir When I Was Elena (The Permanent Press, 2006) documents the years she lived in Guatemala during that country’s civil war. It describes her personal experiences with assaults and illness, as well as political maneuverings such as the self-coup or autogolpe staged by then- President Jorge Serrano Elías who was quickly ousted with help from the CIA. The book was generally well-received, though it was lauded and criticized in fairly equal measure for Urbani’s choice to include chapters written in the voices of seven indigenous women she encountered during her sojourn. Shortly after publication, the syndicated talk show, The Montel Williams Show, inquired as to whether Urbani would be willing to return to Guatemala to reunite on-camera with the women about whom she wrote. Urbani declined to do so, citing concerns for the safety of the individual women and their families if their true identities were revealed.

Urbani got married to Frank Hiltebrand on May 28 on the 28th of May, 1994. They met while on in overlapping tours in the capacity of Peace Corps Volunteers in Guatemala and then were married for twelve years. They have two kids together. The majority of Urbani’s work since this period is published under the names Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand as well as Ellen Hiltebrand.

Ellen Urbani Net Worth

Ellen Urbani is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ellen Urbani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Urbani was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three daughters of Kathryn “Katie” (nee White) and Gayton Paul Urbani, Jr., who was a second- generation Italian immigrants. The family relocated into Leesburg, Virginia when Urbani was eleven years old. In 1987, she was a graduate of Loudoun County High School, where she was a cheerleader. She also was on the editorial team of the yearbook as well as a member of both the Key Club and National Honor Society. At the end of her junior year she was included to Who’s Who among American High School students.

Urbani graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from The University of Alabama (1991) in Tuscaloosa in Alabama, where she was an active part of Kappa Alpha Theta and fulfilled the requirements of her work-study program by becoming an award-winning editor and writer on behalf of Corolla. Following her graduation Urbani joined the Peace Corps and spent two years (1991-1993) in Guatemala volunteering with youth programs. When she returned in America, she earned an MA from Marylhurst University. United States, she earned an MA from Marylhurst University (1996) where she was an All-American Scholar and a Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarand was listed in Who’s Who among Students within American Universities and Colleges.

In 2010, Urbani married Stephen (Steve) Gass, PhD, President and inventor of SawStop. Together they own and operate an equine hay farm, Folly Farms. Urbani has two stepchildren from this marriage.

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