Ellise Ramos (she/her)
Toronto, ON

Ellise Ramos has been facilitating with the WCC since years before the pandemic era, when workshops were in-person and “unprecedented times” hadn’t yet entered the group chat. She is a facilitator because writing transforms silence into story, gets woven into community, and activates us into movement. Writing is RESISTANCE—it is a force to remember, it insists on humanity, and annihilates erasure. Words speak truth to power, and she has no plans to stop using them.

Before becoming a mom and migrating almost entirely online, Ellise facilitated workshops at the 519 for LGBTQ2S+ communities and with Progress Place, an organization supporting people living with mental health challenges (including herself, who lives with Bipolar Disorder 1, PTSD, ADHD with a healthy dose of Fibromyalgia to boot). Facilitating is where she awakens and finds magic – the magic that happens when people bond between words—a connection solidifies in wordless fervour, every single time.

Her professional background is irrelevant (and classified). Writing is her only résumé; what she does for free is what truly matters.