Ely, Elissa

Elissa Ely worked as a community psychiatrist in Boston for 30 years, most of them in street shelters, community clinics and state hospitals. In another life, she was a long-time commentator for “All Things Considered” on NPR, and wrote “The Remembrance Project” a series of radio obituaries about people neither rich nor famous, but highly beloved; ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives.