Kirsten Ellenbogen said that her role as president and CEO of the Great Lakes Science Center in downtown Cleveland has awarded her the opportunity to get an up-close look at what she sees as “the best things in life.”

“Our programs are designed to light the spark that shifts someone from self doubt to belonging,” Ellenbogen told a crowd of 600 gathered in the ballroom of Hotel Cleveland in downtown Cleveland for the 71st annual Humanitarian Award Celebration. “I see that in a seventh grader who walks into our workshop feeling like she doesn’t get science, but she ends up leaving with her work wiring a circuit to create a flashlight. That’s the reason I do this work.”

On Nov. 12, Ellenbogen, a Shaker Heights resident, along with Vanessa Whiting were honored by the Diversity Center of Nort

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