Profile
Emily is a graduate of Hunter College and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2023; she received her BA in Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies, as well as a certificate in arts management. She is a proud alumna of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program and Mellon Public Humanities and Social Justice Scholars Program.
Her research interests include jazz, the politics of respectability, Black American popular culture of the 20th century, and Black womanhood. She also is a reporter for WBGO 88.3 FM, a jazz radio station in Newark, NJ.