Emma Mika Riley earned her M.A. in International Economics with a specialization in Energy, Resources, and the Environment from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Most recently, she was a freelance audio producer with World Affairs and before that she was the Politics Podcast Intern at FiveThirtyEight. At SAIS, she was an assistant producer of the international relations podcast The Looking Glass, the audio complement to the SAIS Review Journal with support from the Foreign Policy Institute. Formerly, she was the podcast producer at the Bologna Institute for Policy Research and her work has been published in The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, The Japan Times, Atlas Obscura, and KPFA Pacifica Radio. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University.
SELECTED AUDIO WORKS
The Looking Glass
Bologna Institute for Policy Research
Bologna, BO, Italy
Em-Dash
The em—dash is one of the most versatile and underused punctuation marks. Depending on the context, (—) can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons — in each case to slightly different effect. It is used in place of commas to enhance readability; when replacing parentheses, it becomes intrusive by drawing more attention to the content, and when it replaces a colon, it emphasizes the conclusion of the sentences.
The Em—Dash project seeks to apply these proprieties of the versatile punctuation mark: (1) enhance, (2) highlight, and (3) conclude, to create political information podcasts aimed to inform the audience of a current news-event and provide an in-depth analysis that goes beyond conventional news coverage.
Em-Dash was co-founded with a fellow student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.
SeminarCast
The Bologna Institute for Policy Research hosts weekly seminars with guests discussing pressing topics in International Relations. Each seminar recording is available for listening on the Event Reports page on the BIPR website.
KPFA Pacifica Radio
Berkeley, CA, USA
The following audio clips are reporter pieces from KPFA Pacifica’s Evening News.
Bologna Institute for Policy Research
Bologna, BO, Italy
Em-Dash
The em—dash is one of the most versatile and underused punctuation marks. Depending on the context, (—) can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons — in each case to slightly different effect. It is used in place of commas to enhance readability; when replacing parentheses, it becomes intrusive by drawing more attention to the content, and when it replaces a colon, it emphasizes the conclusion of the sentences.
The Em—Dash project seeks to apply these proprieties of the versatile punctuation mark: (1) enhance, (2) highlight, and (3) conclude, to create political information podcasts aimed to inform the audience of a current news-event and provide an in-depth analysis that goes beyond conventional news coverage.
Em-Dash was co-founded with a fellow student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.
SeminarCast
The Bologna Institute for Policy Research hosts weekly seminars with guests discussing pressing topics in International Relations. Each seminar recording is available for listening on the Event Reports page on the BIPR website.
KPFA Pacifica Radio
Berkeley, CA, USA
The following audio clips are reporter pieces from KPFA Pacifica’s Evening News.
SELECTED WORDS
International Relations/Research Reports
Survival Global Politics and Strategy, Notes from a Pandemic: Bologna, Rome, Nanjing, Vienna, and San Jose
LSE Consulting, Trade Policy Hub, Vulnerabilities of Supply Chains Post Vulnerabilities of Supply Chains Post-Brexit (research assistance)
Bologna Institute for Policy Research: Trade Wars: The Global Menace, Report Summary
Travel
The Japan Times, James Turrell's 'House of Light': A modern art house in old snow country
Atlas Obscura, Shirakawa-go
Additional writing samples are available upon request