Emily is a Baton Rouge-based artist interested in investigating communal and individual memory, identity, and place through photography, writing, and audio. She holds a BA in fine arts and history from Haverford College and is a current MFA candidate in photography at Louisiana State University. Her current body of work We had to know who we were; We had to know who we weren't explores Jewish identity, history, and memory in the rural and small-town Deep South. She has received funding from the Southern Jewish Historical Society, Texas Jewish Historical Society, and the LSU School of Art Graduate Student Scholarly & Creative Activity Support Fund, and is a current Jewish Alabama Folklife Fellow.