Hey, I'm Emma.
I’m an entrepreneur, speaker, and student.
My life is centered around learning, freedom, and daring to be unconventional.
Most people know me as the girl who created her own college (TEDx talk).
I started this company when I was 17. I decided regular university was not going to work for me, so I built my own informal college.
There’s more to the story, however. Take a look below to see what keeps me busy.
Ventures
Emma's Notes
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Emma's College
At age 17 I decided the conventional path of going to university was not for me. I thought I could learn more in the real world. I specialized in informal and self-directed learning and shared my journey on Emma's College.
Open Fields Foundation
The Open Fields Foundation leverages the power of open tech and open science.
We believe that working with interdisciplinary and open problem solving methods is crucial in solving today's complex problems.
Minerva Univerisity
I'm pursuing a degree in politics and government at Minerva University. The science of learning is ingrained into everything Minerva does. Both the rigorous, active learning program as well as the global rotation allowing students to live in 7 countries in 4 years is what drew me to Minerva.
This is my personal website, the buttons below take you to the website of each venture.
My work
That might seem like a lot, and it kind of is. My brain works the best if I don't confine it too much. And when I let it do its thing - many different things happen. For me, my work should always contain the following parts:
Rumi
"Wherever you are, whatever you do: be in love."