Emily Dulcan

Emily Dulcan is a digital communications strategist with expertise in communications campaigns and planning; digital content creation and strategy for social media, email and web; multimedia production; messaging and message discipline; earned media; and writing and editing. She is currently the Director of Digital Engagement at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to curing cystic fibrosis and providing all people with the disease the opportunity to lead full, productive lives. She joined the Foundation in late 2015 after serving for three years as Digital Director at the Peace Corps.

After working with nonprofits in Washington D.C. and Mexico, in 2006 Emily earned a master’s degree in cross-cultural journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and parlayed her love of words into a career in strategic communications. After two years at Fenton Communications, the nation’s largest public-interest communications firm, Emily served as communications director for Emanuel Pleitez’s 2009 campaign for Congress in Los Angeles. She subsequently spent three years wrangling press and managing online communications for Organizing for America/Obama for America in California and Colorado.

Emily serves on the board of the national foster youth empowerment nonprofit Foster Youth in Action. She is a 2013 Truman Project Political Partner and a 2010 New Leader’s Council fellow. She co-directed the NLC-LA chapter in 2011 and currently serves the NLC community as a Life Entrepreneurship trainer. When she’s not living to work or working to live, Emily enjoys travel, cooking and eating well.

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