Emily Reich was awarded a Fulbright PhD research fellowship to pursue her research project titled Coerce and Construct: Israel's Five-Year Plans for East Jerusalem and the Politics of Curriculum Change. Her project investigates the Israeli policy that has mandated a curriculum transition in East Jerusalem schools, and how students and educators navigate this shift on the ground.

Emily received a B.S. in Special Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley, where she is currently a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the School of Education. Prior to Berkeley, she taught in public schools in California, New York City, and Israel. Emily uses a variety of qualitative methods and critical policy analysis to examine how bureaucracy and educational policy unfold in practice for marginalized students and the school systems that serve them.