Ellwood was also a consulting editor and features writer for Promota Magazine. She also formerly served as the contributor and Western Energy News Digest editor for the Energy News Network. Most recently she was a freelance correspondent and press pool manager at ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today. Her blog site The Creative Crip was cited several times in The Guardian’s Society Daily section for her commentaries on being a “disabled and housebound” journalist.Įllwood, having studied six languages in her life and career, was competent in French and as a resident in Scotland and the UK was working to become competent in Welsh. Throughout her career in journalism, she contributed to publications all over the world, specializing in data journalism and visualization, Indigenous issues, disability rights, mental illness and autism. With a passion for design, she also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Communications and International Marketing. She studied journalism at Temple University’s School of Media and Communications, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Journalism and Advertising and a minor in both Marketing and French. She passed away on Thursday, May 11, 2023, after a battle with cancer in her country of residence, Scotland.Įllwood was a former resident of the United States and hailed from Philadelphia. Ellwood was a member of both the interrelated Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, Nanticoke Indian Tribe (DE) and Nanticoke-Lenape Indian Tribal Nation (NJ) referred to as “The Original People of the Delaware Bay Region.” Ellwood put the words that I could not agree with more: As Ellwood so often included in her correspondence to colleagues all over the world, she was “a strong communicator with a distinctive voice.” About Lisa J. At the young age of 57, she died much too soon.īut in her own words, in her signature line and on her own website publications and email signature lines, Lisa J. Ellwood was a friend and like our sister. She was a contributor to so many things in this world. But this was not to be, and she passed away. We were devastated, but hopeful that perhaps something could be done.

Last year, she told my wife Delores and myself that she was unfortunately diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, an inoperable and rare form of cancer that affects the bile duct in the liver and gallbladder. Ellwood didn’t have a stance or opinion based on the passion she felt for Indigenous people and the communities to which she belonged. She never hesitated to tell you her point of view, and no one could say Lisa J. She was thorough, thoughtful and steadfast in the most wonderful of ways. Ellwood was one of the most diligent journalists I have ever worked with. She lives in Northern California.“A strong communicator with a distinctive voice,” Ellwood, Nanticoke & Lenape, died after a courageous battle with cancer Her 2014 article “The Quinoa Quarrel” won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for writing on Food Politics, Policy and the Environment.

In 2019, Hamilton was a National Fellow with New America, and in 2013, the inaugural visiting scholar with the California Historical Society’s program “Curating California.” She has received additional fellowships and grants from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, Alicia Patterson Foundation, and the Creative Work Fund of the Haas Foundation. She is the author of “The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival” and “Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness.” Her feature articles have been published in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, California Sunday and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She has also performed her work, at events ranging from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, to Pop-Up Magazine at San Francisco’s Symphony Hall.

Her focus is on individual people’s struggles for power and resilience within a global food system. Hamilton has documented agriculture and rural communities around the world. For more than two decades, freelance writer and photographer Lisa M.

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