Emma Burden is a sophomore English major at Fordham Lincoln Center. Her long-time love of prose and recent devotion to poetry drew her to the Poetic Justice Institute. She is excited to apply creative writing to her intersecting identities and social justice work, alongside working with the rest of the Poetic Justice Institute to change the world through poetry. Emma's poetry had been published in Fordham's Bricolage and The Comma, the later of which she is the managing editor. In her free time, Emma loves watching The X-Files, talking about Carrie Fisher, reading memoirs, and video calling with her cats at home.

is a junior at Fordham College at Lincoln Center studying psychology and English, with a creative writing concentration. Through her dual majors, she hopes to better understand the role of storytelling in identity formation. As a Fellow at the Poetic Justice Institute, she is excited to continue learning about art as a tool for social justice.

is a junior at Fordham College at Lincoln Center majoring in English with a creative writing concentration. She is excited about how the Poetic Justice Institute emphasizes human connection and poetry’s place in social justice. A poet and prose writer, she enjoys exploring the line between fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Fordham’s The Comma and the (un)common sense digital chapbook.