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Dr. Ellen, a 1977 William & Mary graduate alum, is an international photojournalist with major projects in South Africa, Namibia, Singapore, Australia, Suriname, Provence, Costa Rica, and Ecuador over the last decade.
She also specializes in historic Williamsburg imagery, Virginia flora and fauna, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida travel and conservation imagery, and photo-driven children's books. WILLI GETS A HISTORY LESSON is the first in a series of children's books planned.
You are welcome to visit her extensive online photo galleries.
Dr. Rudolph is well known in Virginia as an experienced Bowen family therapist, public speaker, and photojournalist. She was a member of the psychology faculty at Thomas Nelson Community College from 2000-2005, and in prior years served as adjunct faculty at the College of William & Mary, Old Dominion University, and in Eastern State Hospital's psychiatric residency program. In addition, she was a senior staff psychologist with the Colonial Community Mental Health Center in Williamsburg, a post which she held for many years.
Here is a sampling of some of Dr. Ellen's consultative experiences over the years: Author of many family studies publications from 1970-1998; appearances on network television and public radio; mental health columnist for various Virginia newspapers; workshop presenter and keynote speaker for local, state and national conferences and conventions in social work, psychology, counselor education, primary school education, higher education, nursing, emergency rescue services, medicine, and law; long-time systems consultant for hospital ER's and ICU's and local governments; psychology in the courtroom consultations to Virginia courts.
She is perhaps most well known for her 14 years as President of the Williamsburg Area S.P.C.A. where she spearheaded the establishment of a much-needed program of orphaned wildlife rehabilitation and rescue services, and raised public awareness about the welfare of all animals.
As an educator, Dr. Ellen is also known for her newspaper columns and essays. You can find some of these in her 'Essays on Photography' and 'Essays in Living' here.
Her interest in children's book comes from a life-time of environmental advocacy. A strong supporter of 'Wildlife Warrior' Steve Irwin, Dr. Ellen realizes that education is the key to our Planet's survival. She tries to help spread the word to children who, one day, will be in leadership positions that will affect the very future of our planet.
Besides, she says, kids are just plain fun to be around. Oh, and animals, too, of course!
Says Dr. Ellen:
I care deeply about our natural world. In my work as an international conservation photographer and educator, I seek to impart to others a sense of the fragility of our world and the necessity for humans to protect our Earth from further destructive aspects of technology and unbridled growth. I am, in that regard, a fervent student of physicist David Bohm's wholeness and implicate order, which offers promising metaphors for reality as an interdependent whole.
Western science interprets life as a series of separate problems with separate solutions. Newtonian mechanics is not some [partial] explanation of the way things work – according to western science it is a [complete] explanation, so much so that all that is left for science is to now fill in a few remaining blanks. We are, in fact, so used to this idea by now that we forget how new a thought this is in human history.
But this mechanistic thinking with its 'clockwork' metaphors may not only not be correct; it may distort our perceptions of reality. Ancient holistic ideas decry the cutting up of Nature into manageable, independent parts that can be understood individually, and so do I. It has driven me towards an ever-increasing awareness of the need for a fundamental change in our collective perspective, from the fragmentary essence of western scientific views to one that recognizes and celebrates the inherent interdependencies of living systems. |
Dr. Ellen is widely read in theoretical physics, conservation biology, and living systems theory. Besides physicist David Bohm, her personal mentors over the years have included physicist Fritjof Capra, biologist Paul Weiss, and Dr. Murray Bowen of the Georgetown Family Center, a pioneer in the study of the family.
Additionally, Dr. Ellen loves the BLUE PLANET series of educational DVDs; animals of every kind; the old TV classics Mash, The Beauty and the Beast (underground NYC), and McGiver; the music of Frenchman Joe Dassin; jazz pianists Bill Evans and Claude Bolling; floutist Jean-Pierre Rampal; and the voices of Judy Garland, Bette Midler, Luciano Pavarotti, John Denver, and so many more.
Life is good, she says!
Dr. Ellen is working now on a sequel to WILLI GETS A HISTORY LESSON. She has gotten approval from NASA Headquarters to do a new children's book, using the dog, WILLI, to teach children about the Kennedy Space Center and the future of space exploration.
Did you know? NASA will fly a nearly 400-year-old artifact unearthed at Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, into space aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission.
Our heroine, WILLI, began her own journey at Jamestown. So stay tuned for some exciting adventures ahead when WILLI interfaces with the future of human exploration!
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