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Emory McDowell is a humanities junkie with a passion for community service. He is driven by a desire to efficiently solve complex humanitarian problems. Emory's variety of professional experience in university board work, policy think-tanks, undergraduate housing, and nonprofit management has helped him construct a robust skillset including professional mentorship, empathy, marketing, board strategy, policy advice and enforcement, and deep research. He enjoys synthesizing these skills to produce grant applications, media content, and educational resources of maximal social good and functional utility for his clients. Emory is ambitious and adaptable, and can function in and toggle between a variety of work environments.

In his work with Hope Cottage, Emory gets to view nonprofit development through both ground up and top down lenses. As a youth educator, he engages directly with community members through rigorous “Love Notes" presentations. These evidence-based, multimedia discussions survey relationship skills including respect, consent, communication, safe sex, and relationships within long-term life planning. As a Development and Marketing Coordinator, he writes grant applications, manages social media accounts and the website, and helps plan both individual events and long-term development strategy for the organization. This high-level institutional knowledge helps Emory better represent Hope Cottage to clients, whose shared experiences, in turn, help him better strategize around community needs.

Although Emory is extremely committed to performance within and beyond the demands of his work, he also believes in holistic personal and professional enrichment. As such, he enjoys intellectual and service projects beyond his job. These projects include board work with small nonprofits, volunteerism as an English teacher, and pending publications with private and public academic journals. Such community engagement helps him bring his sharpest and most well-rounded, energized, and fulfilled self to work. In 2025, Emory will be serving abroad in the Peace Corps.