Elena Brown

Guest Contributor

Elena Brown is a jet-setting freelancer with more than two decades of experience writing and traveling the globe.

Her passion is storytelling and enlightening readers on different experiences that bridge communities. 

She serves as a flight attendant which gives her the opportunity to share her travel adventures in exhilarating news features. Over the years, she covered local community events, sports, and breaking news. Her articles have appeared in The Denver Post, the Denver Business Journal, The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, Westword, and 5280 magazine.

She won a regional Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and received the Colorado Press Association Scholarship. She completed a fellowship at the Academy for Alternative Journalism summer residency program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The Colorado native began her school career at Metropolitan State College of Denver.‬ 

Elena Brown
Elena Brown

Written by Elena Brown

  • Women of the Women's Army Corps

    The Women of the WAC

    Simple cues can trigger powerful memories. It could be the trace smell of baked bread, the muted touch of a wool blanket, seeing the intricate details on a Christmas ornament, tasting a scrumptious dish or hearing the first, chiming notes of a melody. For these four women, a flood of memories started with just three letters: W.A.C.

  • NORAD blast doors, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.

    Of Starships and Mental Health

    It’s sensible and commonplace to make a plan for the future. Some of us have five-, ten-, or even fifteen-year plans, but not Alires Almon. She’s happily uncommon. And because of this, her plans stretch a bit further; she’s working hard on a 100-year plan and not only that, her plans focus on locales that are 62 to 140 million miles up.