Emma grew up with an inquisitive air, a passion, an awareness, and an understanding for the environment around her. She was always very interested in making fiber based art beginning with teaching herself how to crochet and sew. Emma has always had a passion for drawing, painting, and materials her whole life and applied to Minnesota's only art public boarding school, Perpich Center for the Arts High School. There, Emma developed a foundation for talents in observation while growing her abilities of color and composition. 
After high school, Emma spent one semester prior to college in Busan, South Korea at a university language and culture program. Emma has always been interested in Korea as her brother and sister are Korean Adoptees.  She then continued to her dream school, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she applied imagination and vision as textile design student, working with natural and sustainable fibers, juxtaposing colors and textures, and highlighting environmental and emotional centered ideas for pieces. Emma also has a minor in Sociology and Psychology and tries to increase her awareness in different emotional, sociological, and humanities issues within her art and daily life.

After graduating from RISD with a Bachelor's degree in Textile Design and Fiber Arts in 2016, Emma worked for a year at the fast-paced apparel company, J.Jill Group in Quincy MA, as a Contract Print Designer.  

Emma worked for 2.5 years as an Assistant Designer in the women’s private label headwear division of Bioworld Merchandising in Minneapolis, MN. Emma helped design seasonal accessories such as knit, woven, and straw headwear, layerings, t-shirts, scarves, mittens/gloves, socks, face and eye masks, and other small accessories. She has also worked on trend forecasting, designing CAD styles in Illustrator, creating embroideries and print/pattern design. Emma has placed product with Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, Hot Topic, Hobby Lobby, Spencer’s, Cracker Barrel, and Urban Outfitters.

Emma has also dabbled in Pet accessories! Starting May 2020, Emma worked as an Associate Designer for PM&J on the pets team. She designed and developed pet beds, pet apparel, collars leads and harnesses, toys, and other pet accessories. She worked as the pet bed and accessories designer for Chewy’s Frisco Brand, Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Petco Mexico. She has also done designs and graphics for Walgreens, Petsmart, Joanne Fabrics, Micheals, Dollar General, and GameStop.

Emma left that position in April 2022 to work as a contract Senior Designer for Weihai Luda LLC. Within this position, she is creating women’s headwear, hair accessories, and tech accessories. Working on accounts such as Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, and Gap women’s headwear. She has had the opportunity to travel for meetings and gather trend inspiration, which she uses to create trend reports for retailers. Recently, she has had the opportunity to design some of Target’s PRIDE accessories. Being a part of the LGBTQ+ community, this opportunity has been particularly impactful for her.

Emma’s main passion is sustainability in textiles and material development. She is keen on submitting sustainable design options and learning about emerging textile processes that will eliminate the environmental impact of the textile industry.