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
AI as a Personal Assistant
Veronica Belmont’s Big Idea: A personal LLM based and trained on your own personal information, history, and interests.
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.
Cancel Culture Crisis
Navigating a cultural shift and what it means for the future of marketing, communications, and PR.
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…
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.
A Business Major at Emerson? Actually, yes.
Emerson’s Business of Creative Enterprises program prepares students for leadership roles across the creative economy.
BCE Global
The Business of Creative Enterprises program offers two degree programs with partner institutions around the world.
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.
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.