Ellen LeClere joined NELP as an independent researcher in January 2019. She received her PhD in information studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in December 2019, where she was awarded a prestigious Mellon Wisconsin Fellowship for her dissertation research. In addition to unemployment insurance modernization, her research projects and expertise includes work in archives and records management, information ethics, science and technology studies, and labor issues. She is currently a data specialist for the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA.
