Emilie received her Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo in 2022. Her thesis was one of four featured in the 2020 – 2023 Waterloo Masterworks exhibition for exception graduate work. Her work placed a strong emphasis on developing new methodologies for working with vulnerable communities to create responsive architecture that provided an alternative to tokenistic participatory design.  She hopes to use this focus to learn to work with, and design for, diverse user groups with a focus on bringing accessibility and sensitivity to exceptional spatial design.