Emily is a senior research scientist in the Public Affairs & Media Research department at NORC. She specializes in questionnaire design and survey operations and has research experience on a broad range of topics such as outdoor recreation, teenage mental health, environmental and energy policy, the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting and education, trust in government, and elections. She has a particular interest in distilling complex research findings for dissemination to stakeholders, journalists, and the broader public. She also serves as a member of NORC’s Institutional Review Board.

Emily currently serves as the project director for the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, the definitive source of data on participation and expenditures associated with fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation in the United States. She is also the questionnaire and operations lead for the National Recreational Boating Safety Survey conducted on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Emily has also managed dozens of projects for The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including the MTV/AP-NORC Youth Political Pulse, a series of polls of young people on their attitudes toward politics leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, and the Working Longer program, a series of studies on older Americans’ experiences preparing for retirement after the Great Recession. From 2018 to 2024, she served as the survey operations lead for AP VoteCast, a modern approach to election polling developed by the Associated Press and NORC. Emily holds a master’s in Political Science from Northwestern University.