Emily has been the administrator of the International Seminar since April, 2008. Previously she worked in Executive Education at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 2000-2008. She worked first as a Program Coordinator in the Federal Portfolio where she served as the lead administrator for the four-week long residential Senior Executive Fellows Program. The Senior Executive Fellows program is designed for upper-level managers in the federal government, the military, the private sector and their international counterparts. Emily then served as the Program Administrator for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program, a three-week long residential program for senior-level executives from state, county and local government as well as their elected counterparts and participants from non-profit organizations. She also directed a custom program for the National Association of State Budget Officers and a program for members of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Emily is originally from Easton, Pennsylvania where she spent many summers working at the National Canal Museum as both a tour guide and a text writer for the museum’s exhibits. She also worked as an interpreter at the affiliated Josiah White II, a re-creation of a mule-drawn canal boat on the Lehigh Canal. Emily spent her high school years attending a Quaker boarding school near Philadelphia. She then attended Dickinson College where she worked in the Archives and Special Collections of the college indexing, organizing and registering the Eli Kirk Price Collection of Family Papers. Emily spent her junior year at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England studying American History and English Literature and graduated from Dickinson with a Bachelor of Arts in History in May of 2000.

Outside of work Emily enjoys traveling, construction projects around the house, reading, baking and sewing. She lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband, a land surveyor, and their young son.