Ellie is a senior at USC's Iovine and Young Academy. As a third culture kid who grew up in Japan, Germany, and California, she loves designing for real people who have stories to tell.


Her love for design began when she sought out ways to combine her longtime interests in problem-solving, storytelling, and art. She has freelanced for the Keck School of Medicine and The SF Standard, as well as worked in-house for Prismia and award-winning publication Crosstown.

Ellie is a senior at USC's Iovine and Young Academy. As a third culture kid who grew up in Japan, Germany, and California, she loves designing for real people who have stories to tell.


Her love for design began when she sought out ways to combine her longtime interests in problem-solving, storytelling, and art. She has freelanced for the Keck School of Medicine and The SF Standard, as well as worked in-house for Prismia and award-winning publication Crosstown.

Ellie is a senior at USC's Iovine and Young Academy. As a third culture kid who grew up in Japan, Germany, and California, she loves designing for real people who have stories to tell.


Her love for design began when she sought out ways to combine her longtime interests in problem-solving, storytelling, and art. She has freelanced for the Keck School of Medicine and The SF Standard, as well as worked in-house for Prismia and award-winning publication Crosstown.

Ellie would consider herself lighthearted and free-spirited, but don't take her word for it. Here's a list of words her friends and family would describe her as:

Ellie would consider herself lighthearted and free-spirited, but don't take her word for it. Here's a list of words her friends and family would describe her as:

  • Ellie Belly Smelly Jelly Deli

  • Ellie Belly Smelly Jelly Deli

Right now her life consists of playing guitar, dancing in her room, running, throwing ceramic plate-bowls (blates?), eating out of unusually tiny dishes, sewing shirts, living symbiotically with her roommates, spending time at church, surfing the Baggu website, trying to get her dog to see her over FaceTime, attempting to cook new Korean dishes, obsessing over her Pinterest boards, and chasing sunsets

Right now her life consists of playing guitar, dancing in her room, running, throwing ceramic plate-bowls (blates?), eating out of unusually tiny dishes, sewing shirts, living symbiotically with her roommates, spending time at church, surfing the Baggu website, trying to get her dog to see her over FaceTime, attempting to cook new Korean dishes, obsessing over her Pinterest boards, and chasing sunsets

Right now her life consists of playing guitar, dancing in her room, running, throwing ceramic plate-bowls (blates?), eating out of unusually tiny dishes, sewing shirts, living symbiotically with her roommates, spending time at church, surfing the Baggu website, trying to get her dog to see her over FaceTime, attempting to cook new Korean dishes, obsessing over her Pinterest boards, and chasing sunsets

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Ellie has a slight obsession with checking her email so feel free to drop her a line at egpaik@usc.edu

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