Ellen Szczerba is originally from Upstate New York. Her family moved to the Pittsburgh area almost two years ago. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Cortland. Ellen worked for over ten years as an Operations Manager for Ford Motor Credit Company and American Honda Finance Corporation – overseeing daily business, customer service and administrative support functions for branches throughout the Northeast, New England and Florida. She is the mother of a teenage son on the autism spectrum who is currently a student at the Spectrum Charter School.