Erin Ellis

Pursuing a PhD in Higher Education Studies & Leadership

Ouachita Baptist University provided a space for me to imagine how my various identities could be inspired and animated by faith. As a student, I witnessed faculty and staff members model ways to integrate faith with learning. Ouachita, a university committed to cultivating opportunities for faith and education to coalesce in the same space, was one of the first places where I learned I could hold my faith in tandem with  my vocation. It was that commitment to integrating faith and learning that helped shape my identities today as a PhD student in Higher Education Studies and Leadership, a staff member in Student Activities, a wife and a mother, and every other identity in my life.