Elin joined the BRYC team in June 2020 and has served in multiple roles, including director of development, communications manager, and learning manager. In 2021, she transitioned to a permanently remote role, and in July 2025 she was promoted to chief of product. In this role, Elin oversees BRYC’s portfolio of collateral, including curriculum, marketing, and development materials, and she drives BRYC’s ongoing effort to institutionalize and codify “the BRYC Way.”

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.