About me
I'm Emily. Fluent in ESG frameworks and human rights issues, fascinated by supply chains and familiar with climate technologies and financing, I'm best of all at telling stories. I've told hundreds of them as a journalist and have helped dozens of businesses, organizations, executives and entrepreneurs tell theirs.
My story
For years, I worked as a journalist. I wrote about human rights topics like migration and war crimes for publications like NBC, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Elle and the New Yorker. My reporting took me from halls of power to prisons and refugee camps in Iraq, Turkey and Europe. It led to me running HuffPost's first global newsletter, a weekly digest about women breaking barriers around the world.
It was around that time when I first tried out sustainability communications. Two friends were starting a comms shop. They asked me to write some blog posts and newsletters for a multinational food manufacturer that was working to improve environmental, social and animal welfare practices across its supply chain.
It turned out to be fascinating work for a journalist endlessly curious about how the world works, whose travels had vividly exposed her to what "supply chain risks" really mean: Children laboring in factories, villages teeming with plastic garbage, once-in-a-lifetime storms ravishing communities, year after year.
It was inspiring, too, to shift my focus from the worst of the world to the best. I met brilliant entrepreneurs and conscientious people inside organizations of all types who are working to make the world better. Best of all, it was exciting to realize how fundamental my skill — storytelling — is to the funding, adoption and scaling of sustainable practices and solutions.
In short, I haven't looked back. As a sustainability-focused freelance writer and communications consultant, I've written ESG reports. I've helped early-stage climate tech founders hone their narratives, web copy and pitch decks through my work as a mentor with Columbia Technology Ventures. And I've helped organizations sharpen their messages, win awards and engage in global conversations.
I have a master's degree from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY, a certificate of sustainability communications from the London School of Economics, and am part of the CSR Talent Network (a network of 400+ ESG and CSR consultants).
I'm a native New Yorker and live in Spain with my family. In my spare time, I do my own storytelling through my
Substack, American Emigrant.