Ellie Young
Senior Consultant
Ellie is a Project Manager at Renaisi Innovation, working across our place-based learning and evaluation partnerships to support communities, organisations and funders to navigate complexity and understand their impact in place.
She joined Renaisi Innovation in May 2024, bringing experience in co-production and participatory methods. Before this, she spent four years at the national anti-poverty charity Turn2us, where she led a co-produced programme focused on tackling gendered and child poverty in the Northeast. Working across three funding organisations and in partnership with community-based groups and local women with lived experience of the asylum and migrants systems, they developed and launched a new grant fund designed to meet the needs of those women and children disproportionately impacted.
She is particularly interested in feminist leadership and bring a power lens to her work — always aiming to understand what communities need to drive transformational change. She cares deeply about centring lived experience and creating safe, inclusive spaces where individual experiences are valued. She is a trained Action Learning practitioner and approaches projects with a strong focus on embedding reflective learning.
She holds an MA in Transnational Studies from University College London and a BA (International) in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds.
Outside of work, she is learning pottery (slowly but surely), loves cooking with friends, and tries to spend as much time outside as possible.
