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Ellen Stuart-Haentjens

Executive Director · Virginia Wilderness Committee

Executive Director at Virginia Wilderness Committee. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 1 organization on the Form 990 record.

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Organizations
1
Roles reported
1
Reported compensation
$79K

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Reported as Executive Director of Virginia Wilderness Committee, based in Richmond, VA.
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Received $79K in total reported compensation on the most recent Form 990 (Part VII).
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Ellen Stuart-Haentjens is the Executive Director of the Virginia Wilderness Committee (VWC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, a role she assumed on January 31, 2024. A research ecologist and biogeochemist, her work focuses on forest and wetland ecosystem resilience to disturbances and climate change, including carbon cycling.

Prior to her leadership at VWC, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey and was a PhD candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

Stuart-Haentjens has contributed research instrumental in drafting the conservation pillar of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and is an advocate for natural ecosystems, often speaking on topics like creating backyard wildlife habitats.

Compiled from public web sources (6 cited), grounded to the filed record.

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Tenure here
January 2024 - Present
Education
  • Virginia Commonwealth University · PhD in Integrative Life Sciences
  • Masters in Forest Ecology

Affiliations

Organizations

Virginia Wilderness Committee Executive Director · $65K revenue · Richmond, VAPROTECT THE BEST OF VIRGINIA'S WILD PLACESFiled FY2024 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
$79Kreported comp

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Public data from IRS Form 990 e-file & the Business Master File. Individuals appear here because they were named as an officer, director, or key employee on a nonprofit's Form 990; people are grouped by name plus corroborating evidence (Schedule R, shared address, shared board members). · philanthropy.org