Emily was born in New York but now lives off grid in Lamy, New Mexico, by way of chapters spent in Burlington, Berkeley, Chicago, Kodiak, and Bozeman. She loves being in motion, which most recently has been from New Mexico to Massachusetts to Maine to Florida to Montana to California (you get the idea) with her partner, Don, their cat, Homer, and their sprinter van. Emily has worked as a philosophy professor, an environmental grant writer, and as a partner in a Tibetan Tea House restaurant and shop for which she traveled frequently to India, Nepal, and various countries in Africa. She first met Jean and Ahdina while working for the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Now, she not only writes informational materials and day by day trip timelines for Jean and Ahdina at BJ Adventures, but gets to call them great friends and neighbors, too!