Biography
Prior to starting at Princeton, Emily served a two-year tour as a Foreign Service Consular Fellow at U.S. Consulate General Mumbai. Previously, she worked at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, D.C., recruiting native speakers of critical languages for a U.S. Department of Defense scholarship program. Emily was a U.S. Department of State English Language Fellow in Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Nevsehir University in Turkey's Cappadocia region. This past summer, she worked as a Protocol Intern with the United Nations. She holds a master's in linguistics from the University of Cambridge (King's College) and a bachelor's in linguistics from Cornell University, where she also studied French, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, and Indonesian. Emily was born in Princeton and raised in suburban Philadelphia. She enjoys Irish step dancing, hiking, and – as a lifelong vegetarian – cooking and eating vegetables.