Bio

Emily is a journalist and documentary film producer from Tokyo who has followed the intersection of culture and social issues. Emily’s most recent credits as director/producer include Taller Than The Trees (2015), a portrait of a Japanese businessman struggling to balance his career, raising a son, and caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s disease; PBS Sound Tracks: The Jazz Ambassador (2012), a chronicle of jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis’s rarely seen campaign to revive the art form; PBS FRONTLINE: The Atomic Artists (2011), following a Tokyo-based art collective and its response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis; and PBS Sound Tracks (2010), the pilot episode for a public television series examining cultural, political, and social stories around the world through music. Her work as director/producer/camera has also aired on Anderson Cooper 360, The History Channel, PBS NewsHour, as well as on the web sites of The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. She earned a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University.