As an undergraduate she wandered through China and Nepal with a camera. Upon graduating with a degree in Art History from Bowdoin College she moved to South India. Eventually she returned the United States where she did a Certificate in Documentary Studies at Duke University and a one-year course of study at the International Center of Photography. Emma recently completed a Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative Fellowship from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. During this fellowship she made photographs about the families of sugarcane workers in Brazil. She is currently a graduate student of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Her favorite toy is a point-and-shoot digital camera. See her photo blog here: