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Ellen Carr is a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and the firm’s Senior Credit Analyst at Weaver C. Barksdale and Associates (WCB), a boutique institutional fixed income money management firm based in Nashville, TN. She specializes in the construction and management of high yield bond portfolios. Prior to joining WCB, she served as Senior Vice President and a High Yield Portfolio Manager at the Capital Group Companies/American Funds in Los Angeles. She began her career as an Investment Analyst in the Fixed Income Group at Capital in 1999. In addition, Ms. Carr is an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School, New York, NY. She holds a BA from Harvard College, a Master in Management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, and the CFA designation. Ms. Carr lives in Asheville, NC, where she enjoys hiking, yoga, and craft beer, generally not at the same time.