Emily was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2014, with degrees in political science and the comparative history of ideas. She then moved to New York City, where she joined the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, designing, implementing, and evaluating citywide strategies to reduce unnecessary incarceration, expand community-based alternatives to detention, and lessen disparities in justice outcomes. Before coming to Princeton, Emily spent two years volunteering independently at community-based grassroot NGOs abroad, focusing on a range of issues at the intersection of sustainable development and humanitarian assistance. Her work ranged from researching human trafficking interventions on the Thai-Lao border, promoting microenterprise and sustainability projects in rural India, and programming at a Syrian refugee camp. This past summer, Emily interned with the United States Institute for Peace. After earning her MPA, she looks forward to working on strategic initiatives for an international organization, focused on improving international development and humanitarian policy and practice. She enjoys dancing, eating, traveling, and being outside, ideally all at the same time.