She has been a fellow at Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, Norfolk New Music Workshop, CULTIVATE at Copland House, and Cabrillo Conductors/Composers Workshop, and she was honored with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she is a graduate of Curtis, USC and Yale. In 2012, she co-founded Kettle Corn New Music, a new music presenting organization in New York City, and currently serves as its director of publicity. Emily is also a Community Artist Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she designs collaborative music programming for Philadelphians who are incarcerated or returning citizens.