Kate's draws from her own journey of alchemizing trauma into beauty to inspire others to live creatively - and is currently wrapping up her career as a jeweler to move on to other creative pursuits.

Throughout her 15 years of experience as a goldsmith, Kate counseled individuals through life's transitions with personalized ceremony and adornment. She delighted in crafting jewelry for couples who are transitioning into married life or welcoming a baby, but she also held space for the full spectrum of human experience.

She taught people how to wield the healing power of adornment for gracefully transitioning to a new chapter in life, touching on significant life moments like loss & grief, divorce, menopause, health challenges, reproductive loss, and other life changes often left unspoken.

With a warm and bold approach, Kate infused her work with ritual and ceremony, offering transformative experiences to her clients. As a supportive guide, her style was playful, multifaceted and creative — expertly weaving in her extensive personal studies to create a bespoke and personally tailored experience for each individual.

Kate holds a BA in Public Health and Social Work. She is a mother, permaculturist & singer-songwriter. She founded her flagship boutique, Crown Nine, in Oakland, CA in 2011 and reimagined the brand as wovekind in 2024 based in Sebastopol, CA and decided to close it and move on to start 2025 with a fresh start.

She lives up a dirt road in Sonoma County with her sweetheart, her two young children and dog, Jim Dude.

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Kate Ellen's underlying mission is to serve people in rediscovering relationship will all beings — all our non-human relatives and even the "things" we have been taught are dead or without life. The current state of worldwide humanitarian and ecological crisis are the fallout of our collective forgetting: we stopped remembering our connection to all beings, our oneness with every element, energy, person, plant, animal, rock, shell, and micro-organism here on planet earth.

Remembering our interconnectedness and learning how to once again live in relationship instead of domination and supremacy, begins with developing right relationship with self. Jewelry is but one way of practicing this mindful approach — of learning to see yourself as unique and purposefully here, worthy of radiance, and reflected in and responsible to the beauty of the world.

From this place, of loving our own being wholeheartedly, we can relearn how to receive, how to caretake, and what to give back. We can remember what it means to be in community. Ultimately, Kate Ellen hopes to ignite creativity and curiosity in each person she serves, helping them to meaningfully weave themselves into the grand tapestry of life.