Emily Chin is a former USC CPD Water Diplomacy Initiative research intern. In her second year of the Master of Public Diplomacy program, she is focusing her efforts on understanding how to craft effective and listening-based outreach programs around the issues of water access and food science.

Emily received her B.A. in English Creative Writing with a minor in French from the University of Southern California in 2007, after which she worked as an Account Manager at On Board Entertainment, a boutique marketing agency focused on live-event, community and mobile marketing. There, Emily specialized in projects with Nike in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago markets. Her experiences in sports and wellness combined with her interest in the communication of food have fueled her passion to explore the future of the food and water communication.

In addition to being a full-time student and working as the Water Diplomacy Initiative research intern at CPD, she was also the graduate assistant to the Director of Fitness, through which she taught group exercise classes. She was also the strength and conditioning coach for the USC Women’s Lacrosse Team, as well as a course assistant for the President Emeritus' leadership class.