Dancer, choreographer, educator, and advocate, Emily has been at the artistic helm of SFArtsED since 1985, a fact she finds both unfathomable and thrilling.

A veteran of some of the Bay Area’s most memorable dance companies—including the San Francisco Moving Company and the Joe Goode Performance Group—Emily has been a choreographer and movement consultant for such storied entities as the Oakland Ballet, American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, George Coates Performance Works, Pickle Family Circus, Z Space, and many others. She has also been a resident artist and lecturer at DeAnza College, Mills College, San Francisco State, and at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, and has been the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowships.

A former member of the San Francisco Arts Commission, Emily also holds an MFA in Creative Writing.