Ellen is Acting Director, Scholarly Communications at the University of Virginia Library. She works to make scholarly content generated by the UVA community openly accessible whenever possible. Her duties encompass oversight of UVA's current Samvera based repository (Libra) stewarding future repository content, administration, and infrastructure needs. An active member of the open source Samvera Community, Ellen joins colleagues from across peer institutions in groups collaborating to build flexible, multipurpose repository solutions.

Ellen is leading the Advancing Hyku project during October 2019-February 2022. Advancing Hyku is collaborative project to support the growth of open access through institutional repositories, by introducing significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community's Hyku platform. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.