Emma White owns her own public opinion research and communications consulting firm, Emma White Research, LLC, where her clients include conservation organizations, labor unions, and local governments. She previously spent 9 years at Belden Russonello Strategists in Washington DC and her work there was instrumental in helping a coalition of conservation groups secure federal funding for Great Lakes Restoration.

Emma has a BA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and an MS in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan; she lives in Ann Arbor with her wife Stephanie and their young son and spends as much time as she can enjoying Lake Michigan and the state’s other treasures.