Emma received a Master’s of Public Health in epidemiology in 2024 from the University of Illinois Chicago. She additionally has a B.A. in Biochemistry from Illinois Wesleyan University and an Associate’s in Science from Parkland College. Emma has cultivated a passion for utilizing statistical programming to solve problems and find answers buried in data. Be it processing medical records, analyzing survey data, or graphing the pandemic’s impact on football injuries, Emma enjoys challenging projects with tangible outputs.

Emma enjoys helping others and being in nature. She spent eight months living and volunteering at a rural residential community for people with developmental disabilities where she helped residents learn to weave, garden, and make pasta from scratch. She is always up for going for a walk in the woods or learning a new recipe.