Emily Peterson is an experienced professional interested in activating cultural institutions as spaces of social justice and civic education. She is currently finishing a master’s degree in public history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she's worked on projects including a community-centered preservation report to help protect a historically Black neighborhood in Baltimore. With research interests in political movements in history in conservative spaces, she is currently working on her thesis focused on Mormon women’s political organizing for women’s rights in 1970s Utah.

In recent years, Emily has participated in civic and peacebuilding efforts with the Auburn Seminary Rose Way Emerging Leaders Fellowship, the Friend’s Committee on National Legislation, the Common Power Action Academy, and the Cambridge University Woolf Institute Summer Program. She has worked with Utah women’s history organization Better Days 2020 and the Utah Department of Professional Licensure. Her writing will be featured in an upcoming edition of Wayfare magazine, which features voices of emerging Latter-day Saint writers.