Emily is a writer, director, producer, and journalist. Currently, she is the head of video at Quanta Magazine, where she has built a slate of animated explainers and cinematic documentaries that educate and inspire audiences. In two years, she grew Quanta’s YouTube channel to more than 750,000 subscribers, carving a niche for Quanta in the video space.

Previously, Emily was a producer and staff writer at The Atlantic. She created and programmed the successful documentary series The Atlantic Selects, which grew to 500,000 subscribers and 400 million lifetime views. She also wrote articles for The Atlantic, produced videos, and managed the video team’s YouTube channel. See Emily’s Atlantic bylines here.

Before that, Emily was the Managing Editor of No Film School, where she pioneered ambitious editorial initiatives, including coverage of international film festivals. In this role, she also wrote extensively about movies and the film industry.

Emily was also a staff writer at Indiewire, where she reviewed films, conducted hundreds of interviews, and overhauled the site’s social media strategy to achieve 300%+ audience growth. In 2014, Emily was interviewed by Filmmaker Magazine about her work in film criticism.

In her previous life as a Creative Executive, Emily discovered and developed the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee Infinitely Polar Bear, which sold to Sony Pictures Classics.

Emily frequently participates in and moderates panels at film festivals and industry events. She was a juror at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival, the 2019 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and the 2018 DOC NYC Film Festival, among others. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film Production in 2012.

In 2008, Emily and her sister, Sarah Buder, co-wrote a book, Letters to a Bullied Girl, which was published by Harper Collins. The book was inspired by a community service project the sisters started for a girl in their community who was being bullied. In 2011, Barack and Michelle Obama presented Emily and Sarah with an award at the White House for their work countering bullying.