Emily Seru has over two decades of experience as a community engagement professional within Higher Education. Since 2021, she has led faculty engagement and academic civic engagement course design and support as the Associate Director for Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE). Before coming to Carleton, Emily worked in academic civic engagement at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she advised faculty on academic civic engagement course design and community partnerships with a special focus on cumulative community impact during the COVID-19 virtual community engagement era. Before joining on-campus civic engagement work, Emily served with the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) for over a decade where she led academic-community engagement initiatives, including credit-bearing internships for Twin Cities HECUA off-campus semester-long programs, a summer community-engaged college internship program that spanned Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, a philanthropy fellowship for BIPOC graduate students, and a four-year intensive Central Corridor Internship program that embedded undergraduate students in neighborhood and housing development nonprofits along St. Paul’s central corridor during the LRT construction. Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Lewis and Clark College and a master’s in experiential education from Minnesota State University, Mankato.