Ellen G. Frank-Miller, PhD

Founder & CEO
(she, her, hers)

Ellen has spent her 30-year career collaborating with investors, employers, national advocates, and community-based organizations to help make frontline jobs better and more accessible to all people.

She founded WORC in 2021 to help achieve the vision of an economy where every worker has a job worth having. 

An organizational scholar by training, Ellen excels at conducting rigorous evaluations and mixed-methods research to create scientific evidence that partners can put into action. Guided by deep HR consulting experience and social work training, she builds authentic relationships with non-profit and for-profit partners, gaining insight into their most pressing priorities and challenges, and helping them reach organizational, employee, and community goals.