About Me

My name is Em Ingram. I’m a 22-year-old multimedia journalist, artist, and educator based in New York City, originally from the Bay Area, California. I recently graduated from NYU Gallatin’s School of Individualized Study, where I designed a concentration titled “Narrating the Anthropocene: Nature, Disposability, and Necropolitics.” My studies wove together environmental, political, post-colonial, and urban research with storytelling across multiple mediums.

At Gallatin, I sought out roles that pushed me to engage directly with the issues I was studying. I worked as Community Outreach and Education Coordinator at the largest recycling facility in North America, conducted data analysis for the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, and became Gallatin’s second Urban Practice Research Fellow in Oakland, California. There, I partnered with the national tenant coalition Right to the City to create a guide for tenants navigating landlord surveillance technologies. That fellowship also sparked my senior project: a multimedia ethnography on the relocation of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

Storytelling has always been central to my practice. At WNYU 89.1 FM, I reported for The Rundown, covering everything from campus protests to local news. In my final year, I stepped into the role of News and Podcasting Director, overseeing live broadcasts, pre-recorded segments, and more than two dozen independent podcasts. Beyond radio, I’ve written and edited for student publications including Embodied and STEAM, co-founded the magazine 7heaven with a group of peers, and am now developing a new publication, Rot/Wrought.

Most recently, I’ve been bringing together my interests in ecology and storytelling as a teacher at a forest school in Prospect Park—exploring how learning and storytelling take shape outdoors.

I am passionate about responding to the present: how we arrived in this era of human domination, and how we might imagine different futures. My work continues to ask how stories—whether told through journalism, art, or education—can help us see the world, and each other, more clearly.