Elin joined the BRYC team in June 2020 as an ACT learning manager, supporting BRYC’s Junior and Senior Fellows on their journey to an improved ACT score. In summer 2021, she happily transitioned to a permanently remote role as BRYC’s communications manager. In July 2022, she was promoted to associate director of communications and development, then promoted again in July 2023 to director of communications and development. In this role, she drives BRYC’s fundraising efforts, including grants, annual giving, and endowments; and oversees BRYC’s major communication initiatives.

Originally from Minnesota, Elin spent over 10 years in New York City working in educational theatre before earning a bachelor’s in creative writing from The New School. She taught English as a second language in Kobe, Japan, then returned to the U.S. in 2014 to earn a master’s of fine arts in creative writing at Eastern Washington University. There, she served as the student director of the EWU Writers’ Center, a visiting creative writing teacher in the local schools, and co-host of public reading series Voiceover. After leaving Washington in 2016, she worked in communications and development roles at the University at Buffalo and the LSU Foundation while continuing to write and publish fiction. Elin, her husband Sacha, and their cat Charley live in St. Paul, Minn., where they enjoy playing in the snow.