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Biological
Sciences Advisory Committee Members
Dr. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell
President
Marlboro College
Marlboro, Vermont 05344
E-mail : emlovell@marlboro.edu
Off/Fax : (802) 258-9244/258-9290
In a career that spans the arts, national policy and higher education,
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell has demonstrated her commitment to cause-driven
organizations, spending most of her career promoting individual
creativity and artistic innovation in society. Beginning with her
first job with the Vermont Arts Council-—bringing poets into
rural classrooms—through her more recent role directing the
Washington, D.C.-based Center for Arts and Culture, McCulloch-Lovell
simultaneously supported the arts while making them accessible
to society at large.
In her 13 years at the Vermont Arts Council, including eight as
director, McCulloch-Lovell created its artist in residence, touring,
museum and folk arts programs while attracting state, federal and
private funding to Vermont’s cultural organizations. In 1983
she co-founded the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont, which
bring high school students to college campuses for experiential
learning and community involvement.
McCulloch-Lovell developed her vision of broad citizen involvement
and civic education in Washington, D.C. where she worked for 10
years as U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy’s chief of staff. In
her tenure in the Capitol, McCulloch-Lovell gained an important
understanding of the broader policy arena and how cultural, economic,
environmental and foreign policies intersect. The experience fueled
her interest in the political process in both Montpelier and Washington.
She further combined her focus on education and culture with her
fascination for public policy in her next position, as director
of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
There she worked with entertainment industry and government leaders,
with scholars and with artists to strengthen the role of arts and
humanities in American life. Tapped in 1997 to head the White House
Millennium Council, McCulloch-Lovell worked with President and
Mrs. Clinton to create, among other national programs, Save America’s
Treasures, with a mission to preserve such cultural legacies as
the 1812 battle flag—the Star-Spangled Banner—and the
home of Harriet Tubman. With her background in non-profit leadership,
she was well prepared to initiate the White House Conferences on
Philanthropy and on Cultural Diplomacy.
In the two jobs she simultaneously held after leaving the White
House, McCulloch-Lovell continued her work supporting artists and
educators and making the arts, history and culture accessible to
Americans. She headed the Library of Congress’ Veterans History
Project, an American Folklife Center initiative to collect first-hand
accounts from veteran and civilian participants of every war the
United States has engaged in since World War I. She also served
as executive director of the Center for Arts and Culture—a
think tank exploring, through research, forums and publications,
the dynamic between public policies and cultural life
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell has devoted her life to promoting a healthy
nonprofit sector, believing that open and informed inquiry, freedom
of expression and the creation of civic space are crucial to a
thriving community and to our nation’s democracy. Marlboro
College shares that devotion and is proud and honored to welcome
her as our eighth president.
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