About Mary Ellen Capek
Mary Ellen grew up in Haledon NJ, went to Central High School in Paterson NJ, and graduated from Drew University (BA in English) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (M.A. and Ph.D. in Contemporary American poetry). She lived from 1969-1997 in Princeton NJ and New York City. In 1997, she and her partner Sue Hallgarth moved to New Mexico, where they built their home in Corrales, and she learned to ride a horse.
Mary Ellen has been a professor, university administrator, national nonprofit executive, philanthropy researcher, and organizational consultant who published a college textbook on writing (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976); edited A Women’s Thesaurus that changed Library of Congress Subject Headings (Harper & Row, 1987); and co-authored a W.K. Kellogg sponsored book, Effective Philanthropy, focusing on “deep diversity” and gender equality (MIT Press, 2006).
