Founder & Creative Director of LINQUE
Ellie is the driving force behind LINQUE, an idea born from lived experience, community insight, and a clear understanding of what lesbian users actually want from a dating app. With a background in social media strategy, community management, and creative direction, she has spent years growing and managing large online communities across creative spaces.She built online brands from the ground up, including helping grow audiences from 6,000 to over 400,000 across platforms, through high-performing short-form content, community engagement, and strong brand storytelling. She has worked closely with artists, teachers, and studios to develop polished, engaging visual content and to nurture healthy, active communities.Ellie’s is able to see both the creative and the human side of a product. She understands user behaviour, audience expectations, and how to build spaces that feel welcoming, safe, and genuinely enjoyable. Under her direction, LINQUE grew to hundreds of Discord members and nearly a thousand waitlisters within two months, all without external funding.Her experience across content strategy, UX thinking, community-building, and brand identity allows her to guide LINQUE’s vision holistically: from UI decisions, to feature ideation, to safety workflows, to marketing direction. She cares deeply about creating a dating app that actually serves its community, thoughtfully, meaningfully, and with real-world insight behind every feature.