Emily grew up in northern New Jersey with her parents and two older siblings. A Scholar in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) scholar, she graduated from Princeton University with a civil and environmental engineering degree and certificates in German and geological engineering. Emily spent the summer of 2016 as a Princeton Brazil Global fellow, researching the effect of air quality on respiratory and cardiovascular health in São Paulo. As an undergraduate, Emily worked on several environmental initiatives, including organizing a Princeton contingent to the People’s Climate March and a campus energy savings competition. She began her SINSI fellowship rotation in 2018 at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. She then moved to D.C. to work at the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and USAID’s Office of Global Climate Change.