Opportunities for Understanding
In a polarized world, Emersonians are helping break down silos and bring people together, one conversation at a time.
Author: erin_clossey
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AI as a Personal Assistant
Veronica Belmont’s Big Idea: A personal LLM based and trained on your own personal information, history, and interests.
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Literacy
Jessie Quintero Johnson’s Big Idea: An institute within Emerson that offers different ways of thinking about, educating about, communicating about, and advocating for the destigmatization and treatment of mental health issues.
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Cancel Culture Crisis
Navigating a cultural shift and what it means for the future of marketing, communications, and PR.
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EPI Celebrates Five Years of Transformative Education
In 2017, Emerson launched the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI), led by associate professor Mneesha Gellman. EPI offers a pathway to a college education for admitted students who are incarcerated at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (MCI-Concord), a medium-security men’s prison about 20 miles west of Boston. Students are taught by Emerson faculty and are held…
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A Taste of Success
Speech-language pathologist Rik Lemoncello MSSp ’99, helps clients with acquired brain injury transition into the workforce through the social enterprise bakery he created.
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A Business Major at Emerson? Actually, yes.
Emerson’s Business of Creative Enterprises program prepares students for leadership roles across the creative economy.
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BCE Global
The Business of Creative Enterprises program offers two degree programs with partner institutions around the world.
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Navigating Through A Pandemic
Erik Muurisepp, Assistant Vice President for Campus Life, talks about navigating through a pandemic as lead of the COVID-19 Playbook Team.
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When Work Is (Not) a Drag
TV producer Randy Barbato ’82, who has won three Emmys for Outstanding Competition Program for RuPaul’s Drag Race, has made a career bringing LGBTQIA+ culture into the mainstream.
