Ellen Bradley (she/her) is a Lingít skier, scientist, and storyteller born and raised in the Salish Sea (Puget Sound). A child of the People of the Tides, Ellen’s ancestors come from a place where the Tongass rainforest-painted mountains meet the ocean, Lingít Aaní (Southeast Alaska). Ellen grew up skiing at Stevens Pass from a young age and has fallen harder in love with skiing each season since. Skiing has always been the way Ellen has felt most connected to the land and her relatives, especially as she grew up away from her traditional homelands. As a scientist, Ellen has worked on projects ranging from epiphyte growth on Big Leaf Maples in the Hoh Rainforest to the impact of wildfires on phytoplankton in tundra lakes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Ellen is ecstatic to share the first film she has directed with the world titled “Let My People Go Skiing”. In the many hats Ellen wears, she roots all of her work in Traditional Ecological Knowledge, fighting for #LandBack and tribal sovereignty and self-determination.
Join Ellen on the Inspiration Stage on Day 1 of Snowbound to hear her story and the behind the scenes of her debut film “Let My People Go Skiing”.
