Nancy Walker Bush Ellis (February 4, 1926 – January 10, 2021) was an American environmentalist and political campaigner.
[3] Together, they had four children: a daughter, Nancy Walker Ellis Black, and three sons, Alexander, John, and Josiah.
[8] Ellis long volunteered with the Boston United South End Settlement House, of which she was an honorary director.
[11] As a board member of the Massachusetts Audubon Society,[4] an organization that was critical of the George W. Bush administration's widespread encouragement of industry self-regulation,[12] Ellis led fundraising efforts[4] to establish Belize's Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area[13] and the environmental conservation program Programme for Belize.
[4] Ellis was hospitalized on December 30, 2020, with a fever and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.