For 2 years Emily served as the Executive Director of Arbutus, David Byrne’s Foundation where she’s currently a Strategic Advisor. She and David Byrne have worked on a variety of projects including his online news magazine Reasons to be Cheerful, immersive theater experience Theater of the Mind and two documentary television projects. As you might imagine, it’s endlessly entertaining, inspiring, challenging and FUN.

Emily is the Development Lead at Knock For Democracy whose mission is to mobilize a new generation of committed political volunteers through high-impact phone banking and door-to-door canvassing experiences that are easy, accessible, and community-driven. In her role at KFD she advises leadership on strategy and architects community driven fundraising campaigns (to the tune of $100K plus annually in revenue).

Matthew Strother Center for The Examined Life is a brand new non-profit, live-in study program located on a farm in Catskill NY. The Center is dedicated to the pursuit of learning and intellectual inquiry, without expectation for an end product. Emily serves as a strategic consultant, working hand in hand with leadership on all things start-up - from programs to board building to staffing to fundraising to site planning.

Emily is an Executive Producer of DADDY, a feature length documentary film directed by Hannah Myers. Three years in the works, DADDY is one family’s coming-of-age story that began as an old man’s coming out story - a character rarely seen on screen. The film explores the unique intersectionality of queerness with family, aging, religion, and class in the American South. It offers questions about how we care for one another when family isn’t all it’s promised to be… but perhaps something more than we ever imagined. But at its core, DADDY explores the unknowability of those we love most… and the desire to try anyway.