Emily is a motivated, detail-oriented content creator with a knack for creativity. She has been writing songs, stories, poems, articles, speeches, and many other compositions from an early age and has received commendation from teachers, professors, and colleagues alike. She graduated from Lincoln College in Lincoln, IL, in 2015 with an Associate of Arts degree in General Studies and a 4.0 GPA. She was elected as the Lincoln Academy’s Student Laureate and was also chosen as a commencement speaker in 2015. During her sophomore year, she became increasingly interested in journalistic writing and worked as an intern reporter at New Herald News in Lincoln, IL. Emily then transferred to Illinois State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Visual Journalism and minored in Creative Writing, all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. While at ISU, Emily received the Muddy Waters Scholarship for her song, “Funny,” and had music, poetry, and a short story published in Euphemism, a creative arts journal for students. One of her poems was also published in Illinois’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology.

Upon graduating from ISU in 2017, she began working as an Administrative Marketing Assistant for Business Builders Marketing, a full-service marketing firm in Bloomington, IL, and was eventually promoted to Project Manager. Both roles required extensive writing, including blogs, social media posts, website content, print advertisements, press releases, newsletter content, and more. Thus far, throughout her career, Emily has acquired extensive experience researching, writing, and editing diverse content for a variety of mediums and industries. She is extremely versatile in her writing capabilities, having produced copy that has benefitted daycare centers, employment agencies, marketing firms, senior living communities, construction companies, law firms, and many more businesses.