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 writing about human rights topics like refugees, genocide and war for publications like NBC, Mashable, 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 and 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 a couple of friends who were launching a communications and marketing startup asked if I could do some writing for one of their clients — a multinational food manufacturer working to improve its 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 and whose travels had exposed her to the very real risks we talk about when we talk about supply chains: 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 — to the brilliant entrepreneurs and conscientious people inside organizations of all types working to make the world better. Best of all, it was exciting to realize how fundamental my skill — storytelling — was to the funding, adoption and scaling of sustainable solutions and practices.
In short, I haven't looked back. As a sustainability-focused freelance writer and communications consultant, I've written over half a dozen ESG reports; 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 have helped organizations sharpen their messages, win awards and engage in global conversations.
(Check back soon for my portfolio! Website still in progress!)
I have a Master's in journalism from the Craig Newmark School of Journalist at CUNY, a certificate of sustainability communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and membership in 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.