Background
I currently work as a research associate at the Harvard Business School (HBS) California Research Center. I have performed qualitative and quantitative research in various roles at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Accenture. I’ve also worked as a freelance UX researcher with Humankind Co. I received my M.Sc. in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College.
My master’s thesis at MIT investigated the use of digital media (e.g., Google Maps, Instagram, iNaturalist, Facebook) to learn about the environment and practice foraging. In this project, I used methods and analytical approaches informed by the work of intersectional, Indigenous, and feminist scholars. This project was inspired by Alexis Nikole Nelson (@BlackForager) and the foraging cultures of New England and Southern California.
I grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, lived in Boston and NYC, and am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area on the ancestral lands of the Tamien Nation, Ohlone, Ramaytush, and Muwekma peoples.
Professional skills
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Semi-structured interviewing
Participant observation
Survey design + implementation
Journey mapping
Concept testing
Market research
Library research
Archival / historical research
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Data collection and cleaning
Statistical analysis w/ SPSS and STATA
Data visualization
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Academic writing
Journalism
Case writing
Creative writing
Editing
Research I have worked on has appeared in articles published by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Quartz, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN Money, and Axios.
Selected publications
Four book chapters [2, 5, 7, 10] co-authored with Geoffrey Jones in Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023) →
Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean, “Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values,” in Geoffrey Jones, Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time (Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), pp. 154–193. →
Geoffrey Jones, Emily Grandjean, and Andrew Spadafora, “Financing Sustainability,” in Geoffrey Jones, Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time (Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), pp. 93–121. →
Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean, “How Organic Wine Finally Caught On,” Harvard Business Review, April 2018. →
Miscellany
People whose work I admire:
Kate Brown. Anne Carson. Camila Falquez. Thomas Flechtner. Emily Jo Gibbs. Donna Haraway. Terrance Hayes. Jenny Holzer. Ishion Hutchinson. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Eric Klinenberg. Eduardo Kohn. Lisa Nakamura. Jenny Odell. John Durham Peters. Laurence Philomène. Maggie Rogers. Brenda Shaughnessy. Tracy K. Smith. David Treuer. Anna Tsing.
Topics I want to learn more about:
The history of fire management techniques. Textile design. Seaweed forests. Geology. ArcGIS.
Check out an interactive fiction game I made about grad school in the time of COVID-19.