Emmett received their BA in psychology in 2015 from the University of West Florida. They are a fourth-year graduate student in the Educational Neuroscience Ph.D program at Utah State University. They speak fluent English, Spanish, and conversational Kaqchikel Mayan and American Sign Language.

Their current research interests are as follows:

• the development of decomposed parallel processing
• the effects language of instruction on numerical system understanding
• mathematics curriculum intervention and professional development for in-service teachers
• bimodal bilingualism and motor/kinesthetic number concepts
• number gestures (finger counting) across cultures

Emmett’s hobbies include snowboarding, cross-stitch, and making blanket forts. They also enjoys learning about Meso-American indigenous languages and peoples, aviation and aeronautics, the philosophy of religion, organizational strategies, concept cars, underground cave systems, Buddhist philosophy, entomology, dinosaurs, ad infinitum.