April Ellis is a licensed clinical social worker and is employed at the geriatric psychiatric hospital located in the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living in San Francisco. She received her bachelor degree in Recreation Administration from California Polytechnic State University and her masters in social work from San Francisco State University. She completed her horticultural therapy certificate through Horticultural Therapy Institute and became a registered HTR in March 2023. She provides horticultural therapy groups at the acute geriatric psychiatric hospital, she built the two therapeutic gardens there and she leads indoor HT groups on skilled nursing units through ElderGrow programs. She is an active member of the California Horticultural Therapy Network.  She owns 2 pet ducks, Theodora the explorah, and Bootsie