Outreach & Engagement Manager, Environment Illinois Research & Education Center
Started on staff: 2010
B.A., Boston University
Emily manages the marketing and public engagement strategy for Environment Illinois’s campaigns, including our campaign to protect the Great Lakes from plastic pollution. Emily lives in Chicago where she enjoys knitting and biking.
Bees fill an important role in ecosystems as pollinators — even in urban environments. A field trip with an urban beekeeper in Chicago helped to highlight why bees bee-long in cities too.