Sustainability

Student Wellness

Land Conservation

Public Service

About

Professor Anderson Ellis has been on faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University for more than a decade, honing her passions for student wellness, the craft of writing and sustainability. Anderson Ellis is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and is serving her third term as an elected Director and current Chair of the Board for the Henricopolis Soil & Water Conservation District.

Education

• M.F.A- Creative Writing, Virginia Commonwealth University
  
• B.A.- Environmental Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Courses

• UNIV111
• UNIV112 

Awards

• Public Service Award, Dept. of Focused Inquiry, VCU, 2018
• Great Minds Award, Phi Kappa Phi, VCU, 2014
• Richmond History Maker, Demonstrating Innovative Solutions,                                             Valentine History Center, 2013
• Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment,    Southern Environmental Law Center, 2009
• Science/Environment/Health Writing Award, 1st Place, Virginia Press Association, 2005 (for “Catfish and Cancer: How Safe Are Fish from the James?”)

Affiliations

• United Campus Workers