Emily Schrader

A rising sophomore at Stanford, Emily currently studies History and Math. For four years, she has supported youth leaders at home and abroad with the organization Amigos de las Américas. During eight weeks in rural Ecuador, she developed a sewing cooperative for women, a project awarded hundreds of dollars in grant funding. But her passion for advocacy across media platforms and cultural divides did not begin there. Honored with an Official Citation from the Maryland General Assembly and recognized as the Pax-Christi Peacemaker of the Year, Emily spent the past two years organizing the gun control movement in the nation’s capital. She enlisted speakers including the late Sen. John Lewis and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for nationally-covered student walkouts, addressed an audience of 3,000 at the Capitol, and debated campus Republicans on gun control at Stanford. Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper, Emily covered local issues with global implications. The Washington Post featured her political cartoon as the cover of their nationwide Snapchat, and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association recognized her investigation of the Church abuse scandal with a Gold Circle Award. In high school, Emily did anything from competing with the Chemistry team to attending a mushroom-foraging convention, and on campus, she read more philosophers than she can remember with the Structured Liberal Education program. She loves to paint (strictly for fun), read (as a passion, not a chore), and bake vegan desserts (tolerated by non-vegan siblings). An experienced tutor, she encourages students to follow passions and draw connections!