Ellie Mae O’Hagan is a strategic communications expert with director-level experience, a commentator and author.
As a strategic communications expert, Ellie has worked with organisations including the Labour Party, Greenpeace, Tax Justice UK and JCWI. She provides advice, training and research support to help clients craft messages that work without compromising on principles, and get these messages in the media.
Ellie is currently the Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS), where she project managed the ground breaking communications project, The UK Race Class Narrative.
As a commentator, Ellie has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Foreign Policy, Times Literary Supplement, The Independent and many other publications. She has appeared on major news channels and broadcast stations, and a number of current affairs programmes, including the Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Victoria Derbyshire, Sky News, BBC news, and others.
“Ellie gets it. She is that rare communications professional who is able to combine an innate knowledge of practical politics with rigorous strategic planning. Ellie inhabits that space between mainstream politics and the grassroots where social movements are formed; a place where things move quickly and creativity is king. There is nobody I would rather have in my foxhole, and nobody I would trust more to message a campaign.”
—Arun Chaudury
Official White House videographer for President Obama and Creative Director for the Bernie Sanders campaign
“Ellie worked with us during a really challenging time for immigration policy and campaigning. As an organisation we have an oversized comms footprint and Ellie helped us understand what we're doing well, what we need to improve and how we can develop the frames and tactics we need to win without compromising our values. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of effective comms practices and prioritises helping organisations develop the capacity to do good framing and comms work themselves.”
—Satbir Singh
Director, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
“Committed to her principles, flexible in her thinking, compassionate in her approach: I've met few people that measure up to Ellie Mae O'Hagan in politics or journalism.”
—Gary Younge
Award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology
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