Hi friends, I’m Emily.
I’m a Millennial chaplain & counselor building an eco-spiritual retreat center in the Costa Rican rainforest.
My dream is the Generational Revolution: the moment in history when Millennials and Gen Z take our rightful place as the leaders who will guide the world through the biggest crises of the millennium. Past generations have left us with a ruined climate, ruined democracy, ruined economy, ruined healthcare system, ruined education system, ruined justice system, ruined society, and, more than anything else, ruined spirituality. At its core, the Generational Revolution must be a spiritual revolution; a revolution of the spirit in which humans relate to the Earth and to each other. That’s where I come in.
My work focuses on envisioning a new & better world.
The kind of world we can build by deconstructing the systems & institutions we inherited from previous generations. As a counselor, I guide individuals through life obstacles, facilitate personal growth, and provide emotional support & spiritual care. As an eco-chaplain, I help people from across the spiritual spectrum encounter the divine—whatever that means to them—through transformative experiences in nature. As a writer, I use my background in law & theology to call attention to the destructive systems that comprise our damaged world and all the ways we can heal them, if only we muster the willpower to try.
My background.
I’m in my fifth & final year of graduate school at Emory University, where I’m working on both a law degree (JD) with an emphasis on property law and a Master of Divinity (MDiv) with an emphasis on chaplaincy. I’ve completed internships in federal trial court and hospital chaplaincy, and am spending this academic year in a chaplaincy placement at The Hatchery: Emory’s Center for Innovation. I will complete my Level 1 training as an Internal Family Systems psychotherapist in December 2022.
Prior to graduate school, I spent several years as a fundraiser & marketer in higher education. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Colgate University—where I met my husband/business partner—in 2011.
I’m also a lifelong whale enthusiast, an avid amateur pianist, a drone photographer, and a pretty decent crocheter. You can read more about my journey from law student to eco-chaplain here.
