Emma has been a nerd her entire life and has dedicated her adulthood to being one professionally. Born and raised in Bridgeport, CT, she attended Hopkins School in New Haven, where she graduated Cum Laude and won several awards, including the Ellen Patterson Brown Award for scholarship in both the sciences and the arts, the Higgs Family Scholarship, and several essay contests. She then went on to Yale University where her love for the arts and sciences continued to flourish. She studied physics, philosophy, and writing until she eventually decided to major in Cognitive Science, specifically focused on implicit bias in comedy. She also began performance of all kinds, including improv and sketch comedy, as well as one-woman shows. Her career in education began in 2014 when she started coaching children in New Haven public schools in writing and journalism. She published several articles in the Yale Daily News, Yale Magazine, and Flourish, Yale’s journal on the psychology of happiness. She studied painting in Provence through the Barat Foundation Scholarship and the society and politics of North Africa in Morocco. She was awarded both the Nathan Hale and Koenigsberg Scholarships, was inducted into Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, and graduated with distinction in her major.  

After graduating in 2017, Emma began tutoring full time. She started specializing in standardized test but soon discovered her niche was not in a specific subject (although she can knock a math, physics or writing lesson out of the park), but in specific students. She utilizes her intense improvisational background to make learning a collaborative experience, combating the passive educational structure in which kids are inculcated daily. She has used improv, visual arts, and creative writing to teach kids everything from calculus to Spanish conjugations to the Cold War. Beyond her mastery of subjects is her mastery of interpersonal skills. She particularly connects with students with unconventional learning styles, such as dyslexia, Aspergers, language processing disorder, and ADHD. Countless families have reported Emma has changed their children’s lives. She feels honored to be a part of a student’s evolution. 

She currently lives in Brooklyn where she enjoys teaching yoga, rock climbing, working on films, event coordination at a music venue and feminist leadership collective, and hosting her biweekly radio show Emuse on WPKN (learn more at https://wpkn.org/wpkn-programming/emuse).