Up2Us is proud to add Ellen Hendrickx to our Wall of Champions.
After 20 years as founding partner of an architectural design firm handling corporate interiors for companies nationwide, Ellen became involved in government in 2010. She first worked as Legislative Aide to MaryJane Shimsky and later added the concurrent position of Committee Coordinator for The Public Works Committee in the County Legislature. Ellen later joined CE George Latimer's Senior Staff as Assistant Director of Intergovernmental Services, and in 2019, she served on the Greenburgh Town Council to fill out the late Kevin Morgan’s term.
During her years as DL and Chair, she has worked on and run many campaigns to elect Hastings’ Mayors, Trustees and esteemed Judge DiSalvo. She has also worked on many other campaigns and staffed campaign committees for Legislator Shimsky, Greenburgh Town Judge Delores Scott-Brathwaite, Family Court Judge Arlene Gordon-Oliver and County Executive Latimer.
Hendrickx has always had an impulse to help others—she was an active supporter of the Westchester County Immigrant Protection Act from its inception - within County Government and outside. Likewise, with the NYS Green Light Law, she was instrumental in putting together a group of volunteers to help ready an extension of Neighbor's Link in Nodine Hill in Yonkers.
Hendrickx’s experience as Democratic Chair, Legislative Aide and Committee Coordinator for the Westchester County Board of Legislators and then Assistant Director for the County Executive, all contribute to a breadth of experience that she can call upon to make a substantive contribution to the community.
The main issues Hendrickx will focus on include actively encouraging developers to build affordable housing, including adaptive reuse of former corporate and retail properties; realizing revenue from innovative sources that don’t rely on taxing Greenburgh residents such as implementing a demand/response program and actively seeking shared service opportunities to reduce expenditures; and stabilizing existing businesses and attracting new one. She also wants to explore finding ways to nurture small businesses that had started up online during the pandemic and helping them grow.
Ellen was a resident of Hastings-on-Hudson from 1999 until 2012 before moving to Clarewood in unincorporated Greenburgh though with a Hastings address. During that time, she served as a member of the Hastings Architectural Review Board; was selected as a member of the Comprehensive Plan Committee; and was subsequently appointed as a member of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee. She became a District Leader in 2007 and has served as Chair of the Hastings on Hudson Democratic Committee since 2010.