Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Website emilymcdowell.com/pages/meet-emily Facebook View on Facebook X (Twitter) View on X
Emily McDowell is a writer, illustrator, speaker, teacher, and entrepreneur who is fiercely committed to not doing all of those things at the same time. After spending a decade working in advertising, she founded Emily McDowell Studio in January 2013.
Emily’s work has been featured by The New York Times, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, BBC
News, and NPR's All Things Considered, among many others, and in 2015, she was named one of Slate's 10 Designers Who Are Changing the World. Her first book, There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say and Do When Life Gets Scary, Awful, and Unfair To People You Love, co-authored with Dr. Kelsey Crowe, was released in January 2017.
Emily currently serves as equity partner and SVP of strategy at the Who’s There Group, while remaining creative director/founder of Emily McDowell & Friends. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and various half-dead plants.
To inquire about booking Emily as a speaker or a guest on a podcast, please email press@whosthere.com.
