Emily (b. 1996) is an artist and educator interested in investigating communal and individual memory, identity, and placemaking through photography, writing, and audio. She holds a BA in fine arts and history from Haverford College and an MFA in photography from Louisiana State University. After earning her MFA, she served as a curatorial fellow at The Do Good Fund in Columbus, Georgia. Emily is currently a second year in the American Studies PhD program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she is a Tau Epsilon Phi Fellow at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Her work, titled We had to know who we were; We had to know who we weren't documents Jewish communities past and present in the rural and small-town Deep South through photography and oral history interviews. She has received support from the Southern Jewish Historical Society, Texas Jewish Historical Society, the LSU School of Art Graduate Student Scholarly & Creative Activity Support Fund, the Alabama Folklife Association, the Texas State Historical Association, The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, and The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar.

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