Director of Research & Partnerships;
LaJuan and Garlyn Shelton Fellow
A lawyer and former Fulbright student scholar to Ecuador, Emily has experience advancing human rights in Latin America, including engaging the Inter-American System on Human Rights and training religious leaders on international standards. Fluent in Spanish, she conducts research on issues intersecting with freedom of religion or belief in the region as well as community engagement with law through imagination. She also co-leads the Latin America Working Group as part of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable in Washington, D.C.
Emily has also spent time teaching undergraduate students both in Ecuador and the United States. And, as a former collegiate soccer player, she’s used soccer to engage young people on matters of faith and language learning in countries such as Honduras, Ecuador, and Zambia.
Emily received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Eastern University, where she also studied in Spain. Originally from central Pennsylvania, she enjoys reading and collecting old books, ethnolinguistics, and is an avid reader and writer of poetry.