Emily is a Project Architect and Licensed Architect in Chicago who leads K-12 education, adaptive reuse, and community-based projects. A founding member of AIA Chicago's LGBTQIA+ Alliance, the first in the nation, Emily's career revolves around equity. In 2024, AIA Chicago recognized her with the prestigious AIA Chicago Dubin Family Young Architect Award.Emily's portfolio is marked by projects that have significantly impacted their communities. Notable among these are the Broadway Youth Center, a dignified space providing social and medical services to LGBTQIA+ individuals; the Great Lakes Academy Expansion, which transformed a deconsecrated Catholic church into a K-8 charter school; and the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion, a school that integrates Jewish principles into its design.Emily is committed to mentoring Chicago's next generation of young designers. She volunteers for the ACE mentorship and is a founding leader of Wheeler Kearns Architect's mentoring programs WKA LIFT, a two-week summer intensive for high school students, and the "Behind the Fence" program, which allows students and the building's users to see firsthand how professionals of different disciplines come together to construct buildings.