Zellie McClelland

Zellie McClelland is a senior writer for the Show-Me Institute. Before joining SMI, Zellie spent more than fourteen years at Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as an assistant dean in the College of Arts & Sciences, a lecturer in the John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics, and later as a senior writer for Advancement Communications.
Zellie earned a B.A. in History from Yale University and completed her Ph.D. in Classics, Art History, and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her children — Jack, Claire, and Christopher — remain her proudest achievement. Outside of work, Zellie enjoys running wooded trails, riding ornery quarter horses, and helping maintain her family’s farm in Augusta, Missouri.
With St. Louis roots reaching back to the late eighteenth century, Zellie is deeply committed to advancing a freer and more prosperous home state.