Dawn Ellis, MA

Grants Administrator and Department Administrator 1
Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Dawn works for the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Mandel School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hispanic and Continental European Literature from Boston University and a Master of Arts degree in Historic Preservation from Ursuline College. She is very active in the community serving as a member of the Lakewood Heritage Advisory Board and the Lakewood Community Relations Advisory Commission. At CWRU she is Chair of the Staff Advisory Council and a member of Alianza Latina/Latino Alliance. She was a member of the Dean’s Search Committee for MSASS in 2021 and CWRU’s Thinkers strategic planning group in 2019.