Eric T. Caldwell, Ph.D.
Short Bio
Eric’s experience is as eclectic as it is broad. Receiving his Ph.D. in English Language & Literature from the University of Virginia, he served ten years as a professor of English at Sweet Briar College. During this time, he served as the Founding Executive Director of the Galapagos ICE Organization, a 501(c)3 international charity dedicated to improving health care, education, and environmental consciousness in the Galapagos Islands. He worked for four years as the Director of the Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists, a three-week, residential, college-credit bearing summer program for gifted high school students in the arts. He also served in two vice presidential roles at The McGuffey Art Center, the largest and oldest artist-run art center in the region.
Eric departed the college after Sweet Briar eliminated most of its academic programs in 2018 to form Caldwell Communications, a consulting group specializing in capacity building and strategic multi-channel communications for nonprofits. Since that time, he has worked to empower organizations in a wide variety of nonprofit sectors, from environmental education to health and human services, arts & culture to education. He also works as an Assistant Professor in the Master’s program for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Lynchburg.
An avid hiker, amateur geologist, figurative sculptor, and three-season river-walker (with his daughter), this year Eric is learning how to keep bees.