Elissa Perry – writer, thinker, doer -  is an independent consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her work spans the content areas of leadership, art, education and social media and is most frequently with educational, nonprofit and philanthropic institutions.  She is also an avid student of alternative organizational models and follows developments in social entrepreneurship and the "B" sector.

From 2002-2008 she was with the Leadership Learning Community as the Learning Evangelist & Technology Wrangler.  At LLC, she served as a part of the leadership team and worked with practitioners, funders, scholars and consultants to further the leadership field through the development, discovery, management, sharing and application of leadership knowledge in its many forms.

Prior to joining LLC, Elissa was Vice President for Educational Technology & Media Arts at the Galef Institute, an education reform organization.

She currently serves on the board of GroundSpark where she chairs the leadership and social media taskforces and also serves on the Spring Board of JFK University's Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership Program.

Elissa holds a B.A. in Humanities, an MFA in Creative Writing, and was a Salzburg Fellow in 2006 and recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant in 2007.