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Emma McDonald

Doctoral candidate at Boston College
Master of Arts in Religion 2019
Emma McDonald

Emma is a second year Master of Arts in Religion with a Concentration in Ethics student at Yale Divinity School. Her academic interests include: Catholic moral theology, environmental ethics, women’s health, and civic engagement.Emma is from Baltimore, MD and graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion with a concentration in ethics. Her senior thesis focused on the connection between Catholic moral theology, infertility, and emerging technologies. Before Yale, she spent a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at the Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement, where she coordinated the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster, a curricular initiative that pairs the academic study of economic inequality with internship experiences locally and nationally. Emma is currently a doctoral candidate in Theological Ethics at Boston College. She graduated with an M.A. in Religion with a Concentration in Ethics from Yale Divinity School in 2019. Her academic interests include: Catholic moral theology, environmental ethics, women’s health, and civic engagement. At CBEY, Emma works on digital marketing and media management, running the social media accounts for the Clean Energy Finance Forum and the Conservation Finance Network and tracking data analytics for both sites. 

Emma is from Baltimore, MD and graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion with a concentration in ethics. Her senior thesis focused on the connection between Catholic moral theology, infertility, and emerging technologies. Before Yale, she spent a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at the Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement, where she coordinated the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster, a curricular initiative that pairs the academic study of economic inequality with internship experiences locally and nationally.