CAROL EMIG

President
M.P.P., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Before returning to Child Trends as President in September 2006, Ms. Emig was the Executive Director of the The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, where she planned and directed all aspects of the work of this blue-ribbon panel.  She defined the Commission’s scope of work, recruited its members, and developed and executed its work plan.  Ms. Emig previously worked at Child Trends for seven years, first as Director of Communications then as Vice President for External Relations.  She also held senior positions at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the National Commission on Children, and was a research assistant to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.  Ms. Emig was awarded a Kennedy Fellowship and the Lucius N. Littauer Prize for Distinguished Writing in Public Policy while at Harvard.  She received a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.