High School: Carlmont High School
College: Amherst College
Intended Major: Biology, Pre-med
Emily has spent years volunteering at local non-profit organizations and facilities that provide end-of-life care by helping to feed and bathe patients, keeping them company, and holding vigils for them through the No One Dies Alone (NODA) national program. She aspires to go to medical school and obtain Geriatrics training to become a hospice doctor, and has decided that Amherst College in Massachusetts is the perfect fit for her. Getting a pre-med education at a strong liberal arts college she says would allow her to continue exploring the intersection between life & death, make her a well-rounded fully-attuned person, and so that pre-med wouldn't be her entire life. Attributing her generosity to her selfless parents who immigrated here from Korea, she wants to give back through gratifying hospice work and just give love.
"Although death is 'the great equalizer,' how we die, lonely or loved, can differ immensely. Death is hard to come to terms with, but I've learned that life is quite extraordinary. I do the work I do so that its beauty isn't lost, so that people's hardships are recognized and their victories celebrated when they pass. Even in death, there is dignity and love."